Topic 3: Designing your presentation to promote learning

Now that you have a better foundation of some key design principles to integrate into your slide designs, this section will explore the intersection of teaching and design, based on Richard Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning. By considering how information is shared, through visual and/or verbal modalities, it helps you create and deliver presentations that are accessible to all. 

Here is a brief summary of the principles that will be discussed:

  • The Coherence Principle: remove extraneous content

  • The Signaling Principle: Give students something to focus on

  • The Multimedia Principle: Use words and graphics together rather than words alone

  • The Redundancy Principle: Graphics and narration is more effective than including text as well