Blog #1 Multimedia Learning

Since the 1990s, the world has been developing towards an information-based society at a faster pace, and the application of multimedia technology has played an extremely important role in this process. Multimedia has improved the communication of human information and shortened the route of human information transmission. The application of multimedia technology is the characteristic of the era of computer application in 1990s, and it is also another revolution of computer.

In modern life, multimedia mainly refers to text, image, sound, animation, video and other teaching information transmission carrier, used to represent knowledge and information. Instead of textbooks, projectors, computers, recorders and other physical forms of media; At the same time, both the dual-coding theory and the dual-channel learning theory tend to believe that the media of representing and presenting knowledge information in human cognitive processing are mainly words and pictures. Richard E. Mayer In his book Learning Multimedia said,

“defines multimedia as the use of words and pictures to present material together.”

Richard E. Mayer

With a multimedia computer, you can compose an E-mail with interesting illustrations while listening to beautiful MP3 music. Through a modem, you can connect to the Internet and send documents to relatives and friends far away. After working hard, take out a VCD to relax. As for children, they can play computer games and learn outside knowledge.

Here is my presentation:

References

Mayer, R. (2020). Multimedia Learning (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316941355