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2010

Instructional Media Design

Beth Rubin

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Designing Multimedia For The Internet Visual Literacy Of Adult Online Learners, Beth Rubin, Dee Schmidgall, Lisa Ramos-Torrescano Dec 2009

Designing Multimedia For The Internet Visual Literacy Of Adult Online Learners, Beth Rubin, Dee Schmidgall, Lisa Ramos-Torrescano

Beth Rubin

This paper describes how to use multimedia effectively in online courses aimed at adult audiences who have lower internet visual literacy. This paper will help faculty and others who develop online courses for adults to understand key principles for using multimedia to increase engagement and learning, reduce distraction, and take cognitive load limits and student internet visual literacy into account.