Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning

Name: Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning
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ISBN: 9780521547512

ISBN-10: 0521547512

ISBN-13: 9780521547512

Edition: 2005

Authors: Richard E. Mayer

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During the past 10 years, the field of multimedia learning has emerged as a coherent discipline with an accumulated research base that has never been synthesized and organized in a handbook. The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning constitutes the world's first handbook devoted to comprehensive coverage of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning. Multimedia learning is defined as learning from words (e.g., spoken or printed text) and pictures (e.g. illustrations, photos, maps, graphs, animation, or video). The focus of this handbook is on how people learn from words and pictures in computer-based environments. Multimedia environments include online instructional…

Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 682
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English

Richard E. Mayer is Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author or editor of more than twenty-five books, including Applying the Science of Learning and Multimedia Learning.



Preface


Contributors



Introduction to Multimedia Learning




Theoretical Foundations



Implications of Cognitive Load Theory for Multimedia Learning




Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning




An Integrated Model of Text and Picture Comprehension




The Four-Component Instructional Design Model: Multimedia Principles in Environments for Complex Learning




Basic Principles of Multimedia Learning



Five Common but Questionable Principles of Multimedia Learning




The Multimedia Principle




The Split-Attention Principle in Multimedia Learning




The Modality Principle in Multimedia Learning




The Redundancy Principle in Multimedia Learning




Principles for Managing Essential Processing in Multimedia Learning: Segmenting, Pretraining, and Modality Principles




Principles for Reducing Extraneous Processing in Multimedia Learning: Coherence, Signaling, Redundancy, Spatial Contiguity, and Temporal Contiguity Principles




Principles of Multimedia Learning Based on Social Cues: Personalization, Voice, and Image Principles




Advanced Principles of Multimedia Learning



The Guided Discovery Principle in Multimedia Learning




The Worked-Out Examples Principle in Multimedia Learning




The Collaboration Principle in Multimedia Learning




The Self-Explanation Principle in Multimedia Learning




The Animation and Interactivity Principles in Multimedia Learning




Navigational Principles in Multimedia Learning




The Site Map Principle in Multimedia Learning




Prior Knowledge Principle in Multimedia Learning




The Cognitive Aging Principle in Multimedia Learning




Multimedia Learning in Content Areas



Multimedia Learning of Reading




Multimedia Learning of History




Multimedia Learning of Mathematics




Multimedia Learning of Chemistry




Multimedia Learning of Meteorology




Multimedia Learning About Physical Systems




Multimedia Learning in Second Language Acquisition




Multimedia Learning of Cognitive Skills




Multimedia Learning in Advanced Computer-Based Contexts



Multimedia Learning with Animated Pedagogical Agents




Multimedia Learning in Virtual Reality




Multimedia Learning in Games, Simulations, and Microworlds




Multimedia Learning with Hypermedia




Multimedia Learning in e-Courses



Author Index