Research-based design of multimedia learning and information systems

Wolgang Schnotz, Landau, Germany

The workshop provides psychological knowledge about learning with multimedia and hypermedia and demonstrates application of this knowledge on specific examples of electronic information and learning environments. Although new technologies are sometimes expected by supporters of e-learning and blended learning to revolutionize teaching and learning, processes of teaching and learning with multimedia and hypermedia are still subject to constraints of human perception and cognition, which influence comprehension and learning. A sufficiently differentiated understanding of psychological processes involved in learning from multimedia and hypermedia is therefore essential for adequate design and use of these information and learning environments.

The following topics will be addressed in the workshop:
- Positive and negative multimedia effects
- Contiguity and non-contiguity in multimedia instruction
- Modality effects in learning from multiple external representations
- Learning from animation
- Linear and non-linear display of information
- Visualization
- Including instructional aids in multimedia and hypermedia environments
The workshop will include presentations with discussions, analysis of worked examples, collaborative free analyses of examples, and discussion of results