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A multimedia instructional message is a communication using words and pictures that is intended to promote learning.
For example, a multimedia instructional message in a book could include printed text and illustrations, whereas a multimedia instructional message on a computer could include narration and animation.
Examples of multimedia instructional messages include words and pictures intended to explain [...]

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“Multimedia is an eerie wail as two cat’s eyes appear on a dark screen.
It’s a small window of video laid onto a map of India, showing an old man recalling his dusty journey to meet a rajah there…”
Tay Vaughan, 1998, Multimedia: Making it Work
Multimedia is understood to mean a product that is digitally constructed utilising [...]

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Refer to this resource on creating storyboards:
http://www.uncc.edu/webcourse/sb/storyboard.htm
We will be developing course storyboards based on the simple or graphical storyboards.

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Albert Bandura (1977) combines behaviourist reinforcement with cognitive processes for understanding the behaviour of others.
Bandura empasises the importance of observing and modeling – his 2 key elements for learning are: experience and expectations
•    Experience enables us to learn the consequences of our actions
•    Expectations are formed by our experiences
Four processes underlie this type of observational [...]

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Bruner’s Constructivist Theory:
Bruner (1966) based his theory on learning by discovery – information should be  organised in a spiral manner that allows the learner to re-arrange and re-assemble content to create new insights.
According to Bruner, discovery and meaningful learning enhances recall and transfer of learning. The main objective is to build upon knowledge the learner [...]

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