E-Learning and the science of instruction : proven guidelines for consumers and designers of multimedia learning / Ruth Colvin Clark, Richard E. Mayer.
| Author/creator | Clark, Ruth Colvin author. |
| Other author | Mayer, Richard E., 1947- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Fourth edition. |
| Publication | Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2016] |
| Copyright Date | ©2016 |
| Description | xvii, 510 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Cover image |
| Subjects |
| Contents | e-Learning: promise and pitfalls -- How do people learn from e-courses? -- Evidence-based practice -- Applying the multimedia principle: use words and graphics rather than words alone -- Applying the contiguity principle: align words to corresponding graphics -- Applying the modality principle: present words as audio narration rather than on-screen text -- Applying the redundancy principle: explain visuals with words in audio or text but not both -- Applying the coherence principle: adding extra material can hurt learning -- Applying the personalization and embodiment principles: use conversational style, polite wording, human voice, and virtual coaches -- Applying the segmenting and pretraining principles: managing complexity by breaking a lesson into parts -- Engagement in e-learning -- Leveraging examples in e-learning -- Does practice make perfect? -- Learning together virtually -- Who's in control? guidelines for e-learning navigation -- e-Learning to build thinking skills -- Learning with computer games -- Applying the guidelines. |
| Abstract | Fully revised with two new chapters and sixteen updated chapters, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning is your essential reference for evidence-based guidelines for designing, developing and evaluating asynchronous and synchronous e-Learning for workforce training and educational courseware. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-449) and index. |
| ISBN | 9781119158660 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1119158664 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | (ePub ebook) |
| ISBN | (PDF ebook) |