Effective E-Learning
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- Jan 19, 2021
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Six Principles of Effective e-Learning: What Works and Why By Ruth Clark
Clark is an instructional design theorist who emphasizes the importance of how we build elearning courseware. Clark has developed framework for optimizing learning in online/ digital education.
To readily identify effective e-Learning, we need fewer end-user and expert opinions and more data.
Here are the six principles that have emerged from controlled experiments in how to best use multimedia to optimize learning:
Six Principles
The multimedia principle: adding graphics to words can improve learning.
The contiguity principle: placing text near graphics improves learning.
The modality principle: explaining graphics with audio improves learning.
The redundancy principle: explaining graphics with audio and redundant text can hurt learning.
The coherence principle: using gratuitous visuals, text, and sounds can hurt learning.
The personalization principle: use conversational tone and pedagogi- cal agents to increase learning.
e-Learning is highly visible. High visibility will prove to be a good thing. e-Learning is highly accessible. With this much more accessible instructional environment, we will be able to more readily identify effective and ineffective training. But to do so, we have to move beyond "a reliance on end-user (or even expert) opinions."
Clark reasons that human psychology and data should be the most influential factors when making decisions about eLearning courseware.
Decisions about eLearning courseware must begin with an understanding of how the mind works during learning and of what research data tell us about what factors lead to learning.
E-Learning:
Any training delivered in digital form
Content and instructional methods to help learn
Improves organizational performance by building job-relevant knowledge and skills in workers
Clark, Ruth. (2002). Six Principles of Effective e-Learning: What Works and Why. The e-Learning Developer's J Sept.
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