The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521547512 ISBN 13: 9780521547512

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Synopsis

During the past 10 years, the field of multimedia learning has emerged as a coherent discipline with an accumulated research base that has never been synthesized and organized. This reference constitutes an original work devoted to comprehensive coverage of research and theory in the field of multimedia learning. It focuses on how people learn from words and pictures in computer-based environments. Multimedia environments include online instructional presentations, interactive lessons, e-courses, simulation Games, virtual reality, and computer-supported, in-class presentations.

About this title

Book Description

People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone. This seemingly simple proposition--which can be called the multimedia learning hypothesis--is the main focus of The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. Each of the 35 chapters in this Handbook examines an aspect of the multimedia learning hypothesis. In particular, multimedia researchers are interested in how people learn from words and pictures, and in how to design multimedia learning environments that promote learning.

About the Author

Richard E. Mayer is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he has served since 1975. He is the author of 18 books and more than 250 articles and chapters, including Multimedia Learning (2001), E-Learning and the Science of Instruction (2003) with Ruth Clark, and Learning and Instruction (2003).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521547512
• ISBN 13: 9780521547512
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 682
• Editor: Mayer Richard