This paper reviews five ways to increase the effectiveness of instructional video and one
way not to use instructional video. People learn better from an instructional video when the …

Multimedia pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that allow users to navigate or
learn in multimedia environments. Several agents' characteristics may moderate their …

Drawing on research conducted by Mayer (2020), this article examines evidence-based
principles for how to design effective instructional videos and shows how they are grounded …

An increasing number of instructional videos online integrate a real instructor on the video
screen. So far, the empirical evidence from previous studies has been limited and …

This study tested 3 instructor presence features in learning from video lectures: dynamic
drawings, eye contact with the camera, and instructor visibility. In 2 experiments, college …

The cognitive theory of multimedia learning (Mayer, 2021, 2022), which seeks to explain
how people learn academic material from words and graphics, has developed over the past …

This study explored ways to foster generative learning during a narrated video lesson about
the human kidney. In a 2× 3 between-subjects design, 196 college students were randomly …

The instructor's on-screen presence, rather than just voice, has rapidly become a popular
feature in video lectures. Eye gaze and body orientation are core indicators of an instructor's …

At the beginning of 2020, to stop the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to the
campus, the Ministry of Education of China launched a policy “Suspension of classes …

Video lectures are one of the primary learning resources embedded in e-learning
environments. Many universities prepare video lectures and share them as open course …