Richard Mayer is one of the most influential educational researchers: His theory of multimedia learning is widely cited, and his resulting principles for how to design learning materials have become a ...

Instructional Science, Vol. 39, No. 6 (November 2011), pp. 939-974 (36 pages) This is a design study meant to demonstrate the feasibility of integrating three rather different theoretical perspectives ...

While there are several theories of memory that describe how learners take in, store, and retrieve information, the simplest theory for our purposes breaks memory into the following parts: For the ...