Engaging Adult Learners March 21, 2015

Prayer God of Mercy and Wisdom As we prepare to be Spiritual Assistants Grant us the grace -to seek your will -to be inflamed with the Holy Spirit that we may follow the footprints of your Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ that we may proclaim His Good News with everything fiber of our being

Adults are different Experience Self-Aware Have Goals Different retention times Colloborative

Activity 60 sec interview switch introduce

Beyond Bullet Points

Richard Meyer: 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning

1. Coherence

2. Signaling

3. Redundancy Principle

4. Spatial Contiguity As the air in this updraft cools, water vapor condenses into water droplets and forms a cloud. Separated Presentation As the air in this updraft cools, water vapor condenses into water droplets and forms a cloud. Integrated Presentation

5. Temporal Contiguity

6. Segmenting Principle

7. Pre-Training Principle

8. Modality Principle “Cool moist air moves over a warmer surface and becomes heated.” “Warmed moist air near the earth’s surface rises rapidly.” “As the air in this updraft cools, water vapor condenses into water droplets and forms a cloud.” “The cloud’s top extends above the freezing level, so the upper portion of the cloud is composed of tiny ice crystals.” “Eventually, the water droplets and ice crystals become too large to be suspended by the updrafts.” “As raindrops and ice crystals fall through the cloud, they drag some of the air in the cloud downward, producing downdrafts.” “When downdrafts strike the ground, they spread out in all directions, producing the gusts of cool wind people feel just before the start of the rain.” “Within the cloud, the rising and falling air currents cause electrical charges to build.”

9. Multimedia

10. Personalization

11. Voice

12. Image

Cliff Atkinson: 5 ways to Reduce Powerpoint overload Signaling Segmentation Modality Multimedia Coherence

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