Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning

 What Is This Theory All About?

   This theory aims at the use of three different channels of learning in lessons, which are visual, auditory and verbal inputs because of them being varied helps the students get input from different channels. Including both visual and auditory contents in a lesson will activate two channels of a student at the same time and appealing to two or more channels has been proven beneficial to learning process. These dual channel stimulating contents must be given stably, they should not be a burden to students, which will contradict with the main goal of this theory. 

  The proccess goes as: Finding words and pictures for the presented topic, adding sounds and more images, finding a way to explain the topic verbally by analysing the other inputs that will be given, adding the prior knowledge into the presentation and then finishing it with last adjustments.