Multimedia Learning

by Richard E. Mayer

• ISBN13: 9780521514125
• ISBN10: 0521514126
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-19
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Although verbal learning offers a powerful tool, Mayer explores ways of going beyond the purely verbal. Recent advances in graphics technology and information technology have prompted new efforts to understand the potential of multimedia learning as a means of promoting human understanding. In this second edition, Mayer includes double the number of experimental comparisons, 6 new principles - signalling, segmenting, pertaining, personalization, voice and image principles. The 12 principles of multimedia instructional design have been reorganized into three sections - reducing extraneous processing, managing essential processing and fostering generative processing. Finally an indication of the maturity of the field is that the second edition highlights boundary conditions for each principle research-based constraints on when a principle is likely or not likely to apply. The boundary conditions are interpreted in terms of the cognitive theory of multimedia learning, and help to enrich theories of multimedia learning.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Introduction to Multimedia Learning	p. 1
1	p. 3
2	p. 28
3	p. 57
Principles For Reducing Extraneous Processing In Multimedia Learning	p. 85
4	p. 89
5	p. 108
6	p. 118
7	p. 135
8	p. 153
Principles for Managing Essential Processing in Multimedia Learning	p. 171
9	p. 175
10	p. 189
11	p. 200
Principles for Fostering Cenerative Processing In Multimedia Learning	p. 221
12	p. 223
13	p. 242
Conclusion	p. 263
14	p. 265
References	p. 281
Author Index	p. 295
Subject Index	p. 300
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