For my third reflection post, I want to discuss some of the information that I hadn’t previously encountered before our class watched the video on Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning. One of the principles that I found the most interesting was the modality principle. I had never really considered that actually narrating was more effective than providing text for learning. This does make sense to me as I can see how narratively, students may be more drawn in and experience their instructors’ excitement to a degree greater than they would by just reading text. That being said, I don’t think that I have always considered this when I was creating presentations for class myself. I think at times, especially when I was younger, I would tend to put excessive text on my slides as I wanted to include everything that I had researched. 

Another principle that I found to be quite important was the pre-training principle. I have definitely had experiences in learning where I was unfamiliar with relevant background or basic information on a subject, and it therefore impeded my ability to learn about the present topics. I think it is so important as future educators to consider that in order to best deliver information to our students, we need to be ensuring that we are explicitly explaining the concepts and information that they need to be aware of in order to be successful. 

References:

Ohio University Instructional Design. (2022, September 1). Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning: Instructional Design in Practice [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdRYYFa-4U&t=60s