D&D: The YouTube Effect: Do Default Multimedia Controls Impede Novice Learning?

• In Event: Roundtables Thur3
  In Roundtable Session: D&D - Roundtables Thur3

Short Description

The slider control is ubiquitous in multimedia instruction, but should it be? Mayer has suggested that the slider control might create cognitive overload in novice learners, but he has cited no evidence. If Mayer is correct, typical multimedia controls might impede learning. Your dilemma: follow Mayer’s unsupported assumption or make an unsupported assumption of your own. This presentation offers a third option … Design your multimedia instruction based on empirical data from our recent study.

Authors

• Thomas R. Wilson, Azusa Pacific University

• Ginger S Watson, Old Dominion University