Lesson 5 Instructional Environments and Multimedia
5-2 More on the Multimedia Principle
Even if you don’t have the resources or the need for extensive multimedia in your course, you should still, at minimum, try to use the Multimedia Principle: using words and helpful graphics (see Clark and Mayer, p. 72-3) rather than text alone can improve learning.
Example 1
Example 2
⭐Shar’s Note: Remember when you use images that you have to also include alt text. Using descriptive words in the image will help sighted users, but screen readers still need the additional information.