MULTIMEDIA PRINCIPLES AND ITS USAGE IN GEOMETRY TEACHING
Ключевые слова:
cognitive theory, multimedia learning, multimedia principles, multimedia learning tools, geometrylessons, visual information, aural information, selecting, organizing , integrating.Аннотация
Nowadays multimedia offers exciting possibilities both for learners and teachers. To get the
educational benefits of new educational technologies such as multimedia learning tools it is important to study
principles of multimedia learning and to use them for designing multimedia instructional messages. The purpose of
this article is to acquaint the reader with principles of multimedia learning which has been popularized by an
American educational psychologist Richard E. Mayer. An idea of that principles is organization of sound, text and
images on the screen. There are some examples of mistakes that geometry teachers can make on their multimedia
lessons in the article and it shows how they can be corrected. It may be useful for geometry teachers to make their
multimedia presentations more effective. Each principle of multimedia learning for designing presentations for
geometry lessons is subject to further research. All beliefs about benefits of multimedia must be supported by
research.
