Why do it: Research has repeatedly shown that adding emotional elements to images/videos can improve student’s study time (length paying attention), and help them learn, retain, and transfer the learning more. The Cognitive Affective Theory of Learning with Media (CATLM) assumes that emotion can impact motivation and motivation can impact cognitive engagement (Wong & Adesope, … Read more
Last month I compared and combined three articles on the principles for multimedia instructional videos. One of the common principles was about color use. This month I reviewed over a dozen articles on color use in instruction and found the following: According to Misanchuk & Schwier (2009) The following are extracted from a list of … Read more
In this blog, I compare three articles on best practices/principles for designing instructional videos and provide a list of matching principles that may help you design your instructional videos. These can be applied with the WCAG accessibility guidelines and general good design principles. There are dozens of research articles about the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia … Read more
A few months ago, I provided a list of basic support areas that will help you prepare for each term. Now, here is a list of other support areas that you may need in an emergency. Under the assumption that you may not have time to search online for the correct information, you may want … Read more
We talk with our students about plagiarism, but how do we fare ourselves? When we are creating documents, webpages, slides, etc., do we consider the sources for our images, videos, or sounds? It is tempting to take an image we see in Google and copy and paste it where we want it. Chances are pretty … Read more