When do high-tech environments promote learning? The goal of this article is to offer one answer to this question by examining the classic distinction between media and method, in terms of their roles in promoting learning with technology. To this end, I first propose a cognitive theory of learning with media, from which a set of instructional design principles are derived. Then I review resear...

This paper presents a means of storyboarding in multimedia courseware design that uses Microsoft PowerPoint as a storyboarding tool. In six undergraduate and four graduate teacher-education technology classes, students designed multimedia courseware using HyperStudio/ToolBook with three different storyboarding methods--index cards, paper forms, and PowerPoint. The evaluation scores on four crit...

One of the most ubiquitous activities related to learning in the digital age is “search”. In recent years, computers have rapidly evolved from numeric and text processing to include multimedia, specifically audio, video, and images. However, few methods exist for searching multimedia, apart from textbased strategies operating on keywords, metadata and filenames. Creating text descriptions for m...

Abstract This study examines an aspect of the role emotion in multimedia learning, i.e., whether participants can recognize instructor’s positive or negative based on hearing short clips involving only voice just as well also seeing embodied onscreen agent. Participants viewed 16 video from a statistics lecture which animated instructor, conveying happy, content, frustrated, bored emotion, stan...

If you are interested in developing evidence-based educational materials, you should be aware of Richard E Mayer’s work on the principles of instructional design, which are nicely summarised in this edition of the journal. Over his career, Mayer has developed and empirically tested theories of multimedia learning, while elaborating principles and guidelines on how to design and develop instruct...

This paper describes an architecture of Intelligent Multimedia Tutoring System, called IMTS, which provides an environment that facilitates students to learn the course of Data Structure in a context. Three main teaching strategies on the basis of cognitive apprenticeship are discussed, which are program generation strategy, program completion strategy and program understanding strategy. To gen...

results the results revealed no statistically significant difference in nurse’s competency mean scores between the lecture and multimedia cds groups. objectives the aim of this study was to assess the effect of two teaching methods (multimedia instructional module versus lecture presentation) on nurse’s competency in biological incidents. materials and methods in this quasi-experimental study, ...