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Multimedia Desing Principles

People learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics, narration, and on-screen text. And when words are presented as narration rather than narration and on-screen text.

People learn better when extraneous words, pictures, and sounds are excluded rather than included.

People learn better when corresponding words and pictures are presented simultaneously rather than successively.

People learn better from words and pictures than from words alone.

People learn better from multimedia lessons when words are used in a conversational rather than a formal style.

People learn better when words are presented as narration rather than as on-screen text.

People learn better when a multimedia lesson is presented in learner-controlled segments rather than as a continuous unit.

People learn better from a multimedia lesson when students know the names and behaviors of system components.