Redundancy+Principle

based upon Multimedia Learning by Richard E. Mayer
Group Members: Robi Schultz, Tony Brown, John Keeton, and Charita Kimbrough

The Basic Facts of the Redundancy Principle

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Have you ever felt as if you have caused an information overload in the minds' of your students using a multimedia presentation? Although multimedia presentations accommodate a variety of learners, they could cause information overload. According to the Redundancy Principle, people learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, narration, and printed text duplicating the narration. The Redundancy Principle may not apply during the following situations: captions contain a few words and are placed next to the graphics, the narration is presented before the printed text, or when graphics are absent and narrations are short. In support of the Redundancy Principle, Mayer has described experimental tests which have shown that students performed better when graphics and narration were presented alone without printed text. When developing our multimedia presentations for our students, we must maximize learning but minimize redundancy!

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=Works Cited= [] [|http://www.csupomona.edu/~ehelp/email/images/overload.jpg] [] Mayer, R. (2009). Multimedia Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press []