Multimedia Learning

Advances in computer graphic technologies have inspired new efforts to understand the potential of multimedia instruction as a means of promoting human learning. In Multimedia Learning, Third Edition, Richard E. Mayer takes an evidence-based approach to improving education using well-designed multimedia instruction. He reviews 15 principles of multimedia instructional design that are based on more than 200 experimental research studies and grounded in a cognitive theory of how people learn from words and graphics. The result is the latest instalment of what Mayer calls the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, a theory introduced in previous editions of Multimedia Learning and in The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning, Second Edition. This edition provides an up-to-date and systematic summary of research studies on multimedia learning, supplemented with complementary evidence from around the globe. It is well-suited to graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, education, computer science, communication, instructional design, and game design. Examines the scientific underpinnings of multimedia learning Well-suited to graduate and undergraduate courses in psychology, education, computer science, communication, instructional design, and game design Provides basic theory and research on the cognitive science of how people learn from words and pictures Gives practical evidence-based principles for how to design effective multimedia instruction Presents a systematic summary of research studies on multimedia learning, supplemented with complementary evidence from around the globe