Design Principles of Redundancy, Coherence and Personalization

You have already searched for and presented to the class your examples of both good and bad e-Learning design demonstrating the Clark and Mayer Design Principles of Multimedia, Contiguity and Modality. Now I want you to concentrate on their final three Design Principles of Redundancy, Coherence and Personalization.

Go to the Advanced Distributed Learning Web Site http://www.adlnet.org/downloads/124.cfm where you will see the research behind the definitive article, What Works in Distance Learning. This document provides up-to-date guidance for researchers, instructors, program managers and instructional or assessment designers of DL programs, and can serve as a best practices guide for the design and development of future DL programs. You are to concentrate on:

Chapter 1 Background and Purpose
Chapter 3: What Works in Distance Learning: Multimedia
Richard Mayer, University of California, Santa Barbara ..................................................... 32

and particularly on the concepts of Redundancy, Coherence and Personalization.

Based on Mayer's research, find an e-Learning Web site that demonstrates well at least 1 of these 3 principles and describe in detail your reasons for choosing this site. Each of you is to (1) post a blog with a link to the Web site and your discussion and (2) respond (comment on) at least one other student blog. You will have until class next week to complete this asynchronous assignment.