Applying principles of multimedia design to a teaching presentation - to promote engagement and learning

Applying principles of multimedia design to a teaching presentation - to promote engagement and learning

NUHS Emergency Medicine Grand Round, Thursday 24 October 2024, 1.20-2pm

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Prompt:

how to apply meyer's multimedia theory to presentations

Copilot:

Applying Mayer’s multimedia theory to presentations involves integrating the 12 principles he established to enhance learning and comprehension. Here’s a brief overview of how you can use some of these principles:

Coherence Principle: Keep your slides free from extraneous content. Only include information that supports your main message1.

Signaling Principle: Use cues to highlight important points. This could be through bold text, arrows, or spotlight effects.

Redundancy Principle: Avoid using narration and on-screen text simultaneously. Choose one method to deliver your message at a time2.

Spatial Contiguity Principle: Place related text and images close together to help learners make connections more easily.

Temporal Contiguity Principle: Present corresponding words and pictures simultaneously rather than successively.

Segmenting Principle: Break your content into manageable chunks to prevent cognitive overload.

Pre-training Principle: Provide learners with the names and characteristics of main concepts before diving into complex material.

Modality Principle: Use narration instead of on-screen text when presenting graphics or animations.

Multimedia Principle: Combine words and pictures rather than words alone to improve learning outcomes3.

Personalization Principle: Use a conversational style and first or second person language to make the content more relatable.

Voice Principle: Use a friendly and conversational tone in your narrations.

Image Principle: Use graphics that support the instructional message rather than decorative images.

Remember, these principles are guidelines to help you design effective multimedia presentations. They are grounded in cognitive research on how people learn from words and pictures. For a more detailed application, consider checking out resources that delve into each principle with examples.

https://waterbearlearning.com/mayers-principles-multimedia-learning/

https://mlpp.pressbooks.pub/mavlearn/chapter/multimedia-learning-theory/

https://www.digitallearninginstitute.com/blog/mayers-principles-multimedia-learning

https://www.nu.edu/blog/multimedia-design-principles/

https://www.edume.com/blog/elearning-multimedia

https://designingeffectivelearning.blogspot.com/

https://hbsp.harvard.edu/inspiring-minds/educators-most-effective-attention-grabbing-technique

https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2017/09/meded-peer-reviewed-publications.html

https://medicaleducationelearning.blogspot.com/2019/06/digital-scholar-participation-in-amee.html