How Effective Do Students Perceive Different Types of Multi-Media Deliveries of Course Content?.
This paper reports the development of three multi-media modes for an on-line MA Linguistics course, and the perceptions of students regarding the effectiveness of these modes. The nineteen students surveyed generally rated all multi-media components as very effective or important to their learning experience. Students also shared reasons why they believed them effective, commented on problems, and made suggestions for improvement in response to open-ended questions. These benefits and problems can be interpreted in terms of many of Mayer’s (2001, 2005) principles for multi-media instruction. Another implication of this study is that the contributions of the kinesthetic modality should be considered as well as those of the visual and auditory modalities.
