Why am I taking this course?
This is my first EDCI class, as well as my first time using WordPress. I am taking this course to learn more about multimedia learning and interactivity. I expect to learn through multimedia and to use multimedia to demonstrate my understanding. Furthermore, we are more accustomed to using social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter to post a few sentences or photos. I believe WordPress is a good platform for us to post blogs and hear other people’s perspectives, which reflects the variety of multimedia and interactive learning.
What is Multimedia Learning?
Building mental representations from words and images is a goal of multimedia learning (Ayres, 2015). Richard Mayer presents a “cognitive theory of multimedia learning” in his extensive study on how to organize multimedia content to improve learning. There are three assumptions made by Richard Mayer based on cognitive load theory:
- The Dual-Channel Assumption
- The Limited-Capacity Assumption
- The Active-Processing Assumption
Mayer distilled his findings into 12 principles based on a huge number of experiments. Moreover, he believes learning knowledge should be an active process, not a passive form like knowledge transmission (Mayer, 2009).
Reference
Ayres, Paul. (2015). State-of-the-Art Research into Multimedia Learning: A Commentary on Mayer’s Handbook of Multimedia Learning. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 29(4), 631–636. https://doi.org/10.1002/acp.3142 COPY CITATION TO CLIPBOARD
Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.