Multimedia in the College Classroom: Improve Learning and Connect with Students in Online and Hybrid Courses

This practical guide to multimedia in online college instruction provides easy-to-follow instructions for designing multimedia assignments that maximize student learning while reducing cognitive load.

This book presents the learning process as a complex, multidimensional experience that includes texts as well as auditory and visual elements. Each chapter includes research-based activities to develop instructors’ multimedia skills. The book leverages cutting edge cognitive research to improve accessibility and design, while also providing practical asynchronous and synchronous activities that engage learners.

Multimedia in the College Classroom is the ideal resource for any higher education instructor, administrator, or leader who wishes to learn about, reflect on, and implement research-based learning strategies through the targeted use of multimedia.

Heidi Skurat Harris is Graduate Coordinator of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA.

Michael Greer was an independent scholar based in Boulder, Colorado, USA.