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Her contributions are essential for professionals seeking to improve training outcomes within business and entrepreneurial contexts.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"e-learning-and-the-science-of-instruction-by-richard-e-mayer-9781394177370","title":"e-Learning and the Science of Instruction","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImprove the quality of your eLearning materials with evidence-based guidelines\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ee-Learning and the Science of Instruction, 5th Edition: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning\u003c\/em\u003e helps practitioners apply evidence-based principles to the design, development, and selection of digital instructional and training materials. This book goes beyond instructional design advice, providing actionable ideas and multimedia examples based on recent research findings. You will learn how to put evidence into practice, with proven e-learning design and development guidelines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the pandemic, e-learning assumed a much greater role as an instructional delivery medium, especially with virtual classrooms using tools such as Zoom and MS Teams. The combination of new technological functionality, increases in a remote workforce, and new research findings have led to gaps regarding how to leverage digital learning most effectively. This book explains what instructional designers, multimedia developers, and e-learning consumers need to know to maximise the potential of their e-learning resources. 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Since the first edition of this book, e-learning has grown to account for at least 40% of all training delivery media. However, digital courses often fail to reach their potential for learning effectiveness and efficiency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis guide provides research-based guidelines on how best to present content with text, graphics, and audio, as well as the conditions under which those guidelines are most effective. This updated fourth edition describes the guidelines, psychology, and applications for ways to improve learning through personalization techniques, coherence, animations, and a new chapter on evidence-based game design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chapter on the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning introduces three forms of cognitive load which are revisited throughout each chapter as the psychological basis for chapter principles. A new chapter on engagement in learning lays the groundwork for in-depth reviews of how to leverage worked examples, practice, online collaboration, and learner control to optimize learning. The updated instructor's materials include a syllabus, assignments, storyboard projects, and test items that you can adapt to your own course schedule and students.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCo-authored by the most productive instructional research scientist in the world, Dr. Richard E. 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