Part 7 of 10 in the Creating effective eLearning Modules Series (Coherence): http://adobe.ly/eI4N9i
The focus of this week’s eSeminar was on application of the Coherence Principle of Multimedia eLearning Design and Development. We spent most of our time this week examining application of the principle and a bit less on theory. This trend persists from last week as we continue the many part series designed to help put together the best eLearning modules. Each week I describe an element of Cognitive Theory of Multimedia eLearning and give examples of how to implement that principle using Adobe Captivate and Adobe eLearning Suite.
The coherence principle indicates that learning is less effective when information or ideas expressed either as images, video, animation or audio are used at the same time or in the same audio-visual context as the relevant information. The science says that if you include a bunch of additional information (either audio or visual) the learner can get distracted and overloaded. This phenomena is even more apparent when the learner has limited time to accomplish difficult tasks. I’ve included a link to the downloadable version of the slides (this one includes my speaking notes) and have given the usual embedded version below for your convenience.
During the session I used a Captivate movie to demonstrate many of the core concepts behind the coherence principle. That movie is embedded below so you can tinker and see how it works. You can also download the source code for this demo here.
Below are the URL’s to the Multimedia session I did last week, along with links to the others in the series, also included are those which are coming in the next couple of months.
Available Now On Demand:
Part 1:Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules
LINK: http://bit.ly/aPCSxb
Part 2: Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules: Balancing cognitive load in eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5
LINK: http://bit.ly/boLHVX
Part 3: Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules: Applying Personalization to eLearning with Adobe Captivate 5
LINK: http://bit.ly/bkj7dP
Part 4:Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules: The Multimedia Principle
LINK: http://bit.ly/aCHm2e
Part 5:Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules: The Contiguity Principle
LINK: http://bit.ly/gvbcLP
Part 6:Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules: The Redundancy Principle
LINK: http://adobe.ly/ekOKz2
Part 7:Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules: The Coherence Principle
LINK: http://adobe.ly/eI4N9i
Upcoming:
January 12 – Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 8: Segmenting
http://bit.ly/dudvJs
Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as the Segmenting Principle, which suggests that authors of eLearning content should break content up into small pieces or chunks in order to help avoid cognitive overload for the learners. Examples will focus on the use of Slide Paradigm, Object Styles & PPT Import in Adobe Captivate 5.
January 19 – Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 9: Pre-training
http://bit.ly/dj0uHG
This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on creating effective eLearning content. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as pre-training, which suggests that elearning content authors should first build up basic information about essential elements which are pre-requisites to understanding the larger concepts. Examples will focus on the use of Quizzes, the Quiz Results Analyzer and the Table of Contents in Adobe Captivate 5.
February 9 – Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 10: Individual Differences
http://bit.ly/bvrOO6
Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as the Individual Differences Principle, which suggests that design effects are stronger for low-knowledge learners than for high knowledge learners, and for high-spatial learners rather than for low-spatial learners. Examples will focus on the use of Advanced Actions, ADA/508 Compliance, Closed Captions, Localization, Video Closed Caption, Branching and User Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.
Want to do more reading? Here’s a brief list of recommended supplemental reading:
Clark & Mayer (2007.) eLearning: and the Science of Instruction http://amzn.to/chkPuw (Links to Amazon – but this book is pretty widely available.)
A short but clear overview of the history of learning theory.
Thanks Jose – i’ll look into those links today. It may be some problem with the bitly shortening or it may be something in the browser. Could you also check just by backing up your browser? I’ve seen a wierd thing once or twice where after registration you get a file not found error- but refreshing or browsing calls it up.
Session 3 LINK:https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?id=1710392&event=register_no_session&loc=en_us
Session 8 LINK:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=set_registered&id=1727082&loc=en_us
Session 9 LINK:http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=set_registered&id=1728739&loc=en_us
Thank you Dr. Partridge. The full URLs you posted worked much better.
Please allow me to say that these sessions have been very informative and I appreciated your efforts to give us the foundation for learning theories and practical applications using the Adobe eLearning Suite.
I’m one of those folks you mentioned in the session where I’ve graduated to this type of work (creating eLearning content). While my background is in communications (US Army, Information Technology, and technical training) I often applied the principals in my work but never really had a true understanding of the mechanisms and why I was doing it. These sessions have proven invaluable to me.
Thanks you once again and I look foward to future sessions.
Jose
Hello again Dr. Partridge. I was able to get to session 3 but cannot get to session 8 or 9.
Looking closer at the URLs, sessions 8 and 9 show a registration ID where session 3 shows, “register_no_session.” Is it possible you posted expired session links?
I get the same, “error processing your request” message even when trying to use the full links. I even tried the links using different PCs and get the same error.
Session 8: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=1727080&loc=en_us
Session 9: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=register_no_session&id=1728737&loc=en_us
Hi Mo,
I’ve updated the archives to fix this (the end date had been set to 2014 for most of them, i’ve extended it for another couple of decades.) This should fix the archived links – links to upcoming sessions take a lot more to discover and change once a session is over, but I’ve archived this entire series here: https://elearning.adobe.com/2011/11/the-principles-of-elearning-cognitive-theory-of-multimedia-design.html for your convenience.
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