Overview

This blog post contains my brief understanding of multimedia learning and my previous experience with multimedia and online learning. It also includes a brief introduction of myself.

Introduce Myself

Welcome to my blog. First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Jingjing and I come from China. I am a sophomore at the University of Victoria. My major is economics. I am glad you came to visit my homepage. Please feel free to comment if you have any questions.

Reflections and Experience

Multimedia learning is a process that uses pictures, text or video as well as a series of multimedia applications. According to Mayer, multimedia learning environment is a design that facilitates learning that includes words or pictures. The kinds of multimedia learning we are familiar with are PowerPoints, videos, pictures, online speeches like TedTalk, YouTube. When I was in college, my professor asked us to go and watch some of these speak son TedTalk. Learners can not only understand the content through the sound and subtitles, but also capture the key points through the speakers’ body languages in the video or the audiences’ feedback, such as laughter. Here is an example from a YouTube video that shows how multimedia learning can make it easier to get help. To sum up, multimedia learning is an effective and easy to accept way of learning.

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References

Mayer, R. E. (Ed.). (2014). The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO978113954736

MobileCitizen. [MobileCitizen]. (2019, Nov 10). Interactive multimedia education using the mobile phone [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/9aV8bK9E0z0