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Design for Multimedia Learning - the Signaling Principle
This installment in the @5min Video series is on Design for Multimedia Learning - the Signaling Principle.

Description:
From my @5min video on Cognitive Processing and Multimedia Learning:
If you speak and use PowerPoint to show words, pictures, charts/graphs, video, etc. you teach with multimedia. If you speak and write on a chalk board or dry-erase board you teach with multimedia. If you have a book for your course that uses pictures, charts/graphs, etc. you teach with multimedia. Understanding the cognitive effects of what is being presented and how it is being presented can help you manage the demands of cognitive processing in your students and can help prevent their cognitive overload. By doing this you can vastly improve your students ability to learn.

Over the next few months, I'll be recording @5min videos on Mayer's twelve principles of design for multimedia learning: Coherence, Signaling, Redundancy, Spatial Contiguity, Temporal Contiguity, Segmenting, Pre-Training, Modality, Multimedia, Personalization, Voice, and Image. This recording will focus on the second principle: Signaling, which concentrates on the reduction of extraneous information in order to assist cognitive processing.

Tools Shown:
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Tools Used:
PowerPoint, Panopto, Rode Podcaster Microphone

Resources:
Video (5:07) - http://bit.ly/O0guEg
Blog entry - http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/blogs/sgarwood/design-for-multimedia-learning-the-signaling-principle.html
Resources -
  • Mayer, R. E. (2009). Signaling Principle. In Multimedia Learning (pp. 108-117). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • @5min Videos:
To view earlier resources created for this series, please see:
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/directory/sgarwood/index.html

Hope you find this helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions/comments,

Steve
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