Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to Multimedia Learning
- Part I Theoretical Foundations
- Part II Basic Principles of Multimedia Learning
- 6 Ten Common but Questionable Principles of Multimedia Learning
- 7 The Multimedia Principle
- 8 The Split-Attention Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 9 The Modality Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 10 The Redundancy Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 11 The Signaling (or Cueing) Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 12 Principles for Reducing Extraneous Processing in Multimedia Learning: Coherence, Signaling, Redundancy, Spatial Contiguity, and Temporal Contiguity Principles
- 13 Principles for Managing Essential Processing in Multimedia Learning: Segmenting, Pre-training, and Modality Principles
- 14 Principles Based on Social Cues in Multimedia Learning: Personalization, Voice, Image, and Embodiment Principles
- Part III Advanced Principles of Multimedia Learning
- Part IV Multimedia Learning of Cognitive Processes
- Part V Multimedia Learning in Advanced Computer-Based Contexts
- Author Index
- Subject Index
9 - The Modality Principle in Multimedia Learning
from Part II - Basic Principles of Multimedia Learning
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning
- The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction to Multimedia Learning
- Part I Theoretical Foundations
- Part II Basic Principles of Multimedia Learning
- 6 Ten Common but Questionable Principles of Multimedia Learning
- 7 The Multimedia Principle
- 8 The Split-Attention Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 9 The Modality Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 10 The Redundancy Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 11 The Signaling (or Cueing) Principle in Multimedia Learning
- 12 Principles for Reducing Extraneous Processing in Multimedia Learning: Coherence, Signaling, Redundancy, Spatial Contiguity, and Temporal Contiguity Principles
- 13 Principles for Managing Essential Processing in Multimedia Learning: Segmenting, Pre-training, and Modality Principles
- 14 Principles Based on Social Cues in Multimedia Learning: Personalization, Voice, Image, and Embodiment Principles
- Part III Advanced Principles of Multimedia Learning
- Part IV Multimedia Learning of Cognitive Processes
- Part V Multimedia Learning in Advanced Computer-Based Contexts
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
The capacity limitations of working memory are a major impediment when students are required to learn new material. Furthermore, those limitations are relatively inflexible. Nevertheless, there is one technique that can effectively expand working memory capacity. Under certain well-defined conditions, presenting some information in visual mode and other information in auditory mode can expand effective working memory capacity and so reduce the effects of an excessive cognitive load. This effect is called the modality effect or modality principle. It is an instructional principle that can substantially increase learning. This chapter discusses the theory and data that underpin the principle and the instructional implications that flow from the principle.
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning , pp. 227 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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