Multimedia instruction means presenting words and pictures that are intended to promote learning. Since there severe limits on the amount of information processed in human working memory, multimedia instructional messages should be so designed as guide appropriate cognitive processing during learning without overloading learner’s system. To maximize learners’ information, design software must c...

This study is distinguished by distancing itself from the type of multimedia research that looks at the etTects of multimedia instructional units on students. The approach. instead, is within a constructionist learning paradigm and the research task is to take the first steps to begin to know what we don’t know about the student creation of multimedia documents. The outcome of preliminary resea...

In this article, themost relevant literature on cognitive aging and instructional design is merged to formulate recommendations for designing computer-based training material aimed at elderly learners. The core message is that researchers and instructional designers do not need to develop special computerized instruction for older adults. Rather, existing principles of general instructional and...

Development of interactive e-learning courseware has focused largely on the instructional design approach of multimedia applications and has brought about a substantial amount of success in producing engaging multimedia educational resources. In this article I explore how the multimedia instructional strategies and processes can be enhanced by incorporating the principles of cognitive psycholog...

In recent years, with the infusion of the multimedia technology into the education arena, traditional educational materials can be translated into interactive electronic form through the use of multimedia authoring tools. This has allowed teachers to design and incorporate multimedia elements and choreograph them in an orderly sequence to convey the message in an interactive and multi-sensory l...

BACKGROUND On the basis of a multimodal model of working memory, cognitive load theory predicts that a multimedia-based instructional format leads to a better acquisition of complex subject matter than a purely visual instructional format. AIMS This study investigated the extent to which age and instructional format had an impact on training efficiency among both young and old adults. It was ...