What made me decide to take this course?

This is not my first time to take EDCI course, but this is my first try to take course about Interactive media and use WordPress as a new system to share my blog. I wanted to take this course to learn more about multimedia and explore types of interactive. Also, it had another reason to make me want to take EDCI 337, I could interact and share what I learned through Blog in this class with my classmates, and get effective comments, and it won’t make me feel alone in the process of learning.

What is Multimedia Learning?

Multimedia learning is learning from words and pictures. A goal of research on multimedia learning is to understand how to design multimedia learning environments that promote meaningful learning (Mayer, 2014). According to Richard Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, it provides evidence-based principles for designing multimedia learning, and it is based on three assumptions (Connie M):

• Active processes assumption
  Active learning entails carrying out a coordinated set of cognitive processes during learning.
• Dual-channel assumption
  Dual channels, one for visual/pictorial and one for auditory/verbal processing.
• Limited-capacity assumption
  Each channel has limited capacity for processes.

Reference

Mayer, R. E. (2014). Introduction to multimedia learning. In R. E. Mayer (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning (pp. 1–24). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139547369.002

Connie Malamed, Applying Richard Mayer’s Cognitive Theory Of Multimedia Learning https://theelearningcoach.com/learning/learning-theory-and-multimedia/