Ten Principles of Multimedia Learning

Examples

In 2006 Richard E Mayer set out "Ten Principles for Multimedia Learning" based on his research at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

This blog gives you the opportunity to agree or not with Mayer's ten principles.

To start with look at a few example educational pages,do they totally support support Mayer's principles? or are there any snags?Try a few examples from multimedia educational sites around the web. Do they support Mayer's principles - or not?

Keep the ten principles in mind as you surf - add your own examples that support one or more of Mayer's principles.

Found a site you think proves or disproves a principle?
Think the principle drives a coach and horses through the principles of good web design?
Post your comment on any of the examples here and tell the world why.

Sunday, November 02, 2008

Modality Principle:
People learn better from words and pictures when words are spoken, rather than printed.

Here's an example from Adobe .com.
When does entertaining become annoying?
How many times will you need to view the video before you can remember all the steps?
Better that boring old lists of instructions?
Instructions better 'cos you can print them out?
Click comments to praise or pan adobe!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Very interesting and helpful article. I have a question about #4 -- the Modality Principle: People learn better from words and pictures when words are spoken, rather than printed.

I feel I learn even better when there the words are printed as well as spoken. I like some key words to be shown in text, at the same time they are spoken. Would that be in line with the principles, or contrary to the principles?
Thank you!
Laurie; September 2, 2013 at 10:02:00 AM PDT

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The Ten Principles

1. Multimedia Principle:
People learn better from word and pictures than from words alone.

2. Contiguity Principle:
People learn better when when corresponding words and pictures are presented near rather than far from each other in time or on the screen.

3. Coherence Principle:
People learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included.

4. Modality Principle:
People learn better from words and pictures when words are spoken rather than printed.

5. Redundancy Principle:
People learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration and on screen text.

6. Personalization Principle:
People learn better when words are presented in a conversational style, rather than formal style.

7. Voice Principle:
People learn better when words are spoken in a non-accented human voice than in a machine voice or accented voice.

8. Signaling Principle:
People learn better when the voice signals important words rather than when there are no signals.

9. Interactivity Principle:
People learn better when they can control the pace of presentation than when they receive continuous presentation.

10. Pretraining principle:
People learn better when they receive pretraining on each component rather than no pretraining.

Find out more about Professor Mayer's research at:
http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/mayer/index.php