TitleEnhancing the Learning Experience Through MAUI
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Learning Objectives - As a learner who has completed this course, you will
- Understand and articulate how multimedia, animation, and user interaction affect a learner's perception of a learning event, as well as the content
- Understand and articulate what Extraneous Cognitive Load is
- Explain how Extraneous Cognitive Load is reduced through good instructional design
Priming QuestionThink back to a time when you participated in a learning event, either in-person or virtually, that just showed you a few PowerPoint slides, or a wall of text. How engaged were you?
The Effect on the LearnerWhat are Multimedia, Animation, and User Interaction?
These are tools that you're likely familiar with, and understand their effects on an intuitive level as an Instructional Designer.
Examples of Multimedia
- Text
- Audio
- Image
- Animation
- Video
Examples of User Interaction
- Clicking
- Sliding
- Toggling
- Dragging
- Dropping
- Typing
Enhance Your eLearningMultimedia, Animation, and User Interaction (or MAUI) not only help the learner make a more meaningful connection with the material, but can also influence the learner's attitude toward the content and the learning event.
Audio CalloutPut another way, these tools and techniques help the learner positively engage with the learning event and the content. This can have a direct effect on the learner's ability to absorb and internalize the information being presented.
The Effect on the LearnerThere are several large bodies of research that explore, test, and validate how various types of multimedia and user interaction affect the learner's experience and knowledge transference. So much so that it spans several academic disciplines beyond what we have time to discuss today.
For our purposes, we'll explore the following
- How MAUI promotes a positive perception of the learning event, as well as the content
- How MAUI reduces Extraneous Cognitive Load
Positive Learning, Content, and Active LearningStudy 1
“The qualitative results confirm the quantitative analysis that the enhanced interactivity design produced a more favourable user experience. The interactive features were generally well received, while the standard design was considered boring and was rated less favourably because of its absence of interactive features. Interestingly, this negative view also influenced perception of content even though this was identical for both designs, so the lack of engaging interactive features appears to have created a ‘negative halo’ effect on content.”
Source – Sutcliffe Study on ResearchGate
Study 2
“In each experiment, students’ engagement and active learning have been approximately 66% greater, than with the same material being delivered using bullet points, text, and speech, corroborating a range of theories presented by multimedia learning scholars like Sweller and Mayer.”
— David Roberts
Source – Roberts on Academia.edu
Cognitive Load TheoryTo understand why it’s important to reduce cognitive load, we need to first understand the theory.
Developer Requirement:Insert Explainer Video Here. It should include text and iconography as reinforcement. Use the same color scheme as the Rise course.Explainer Video ScriptCognitive Load Theory was developed in the late 1980s through the work of John Sweller.There are three types of cognitive load:- Intrinsic Cognitive Load – The inherent level of difficulty of the instructional content.- Extraneous Cognitive Load – The load generated by the way content is presented. This is the part instructional designers can influence and reduce.- Germane Cognitive Load – The mental effort devoted to constructing long-term memory (schema).If we reduce extraneous cognitive load through tools like MAUI, we increase the learner’s capacity to engage and retain content.RecapInstructional Designers can reduce the extraneous cognitive load of learners using multimedia, animation, and interaction.
Doing so improves
- Learner attitude
- Learner engagement
- Learner retention
Knowledge CheckDeveloper Requirements- Learners must pass with at least 66%
- On completion, show a congratulatory message and exit instructions
QuestionsTrue or FalseMultimedia, Animation, and User Interaction can increase the learner’s engagement and ability to actively learn by up to 66%.
Answer: True
MatchingMatch the correct cognitive load to its definition:
- Intrinsic – The inherent difficulty of the topic
- Extraneous – How the information is presented
- Germane – Building long-term memory (schema)
Multiple ChoiceWhich type of cognitive load can an instructional designer directly influence?
Answer: Extraneous Cognitive Load
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