One open educational resource I found highly impactful is the Google AI Essentials course on Coursera. While the platform offers paid certificates, the core instructional videos, practice exercises, and supporting materials are freely accessible, making the resource inclusive and aligned with open-learning values. The course demonstrates strong instructional design grounded in multimedia learning theory. Short,…
Updated: October 23rd, 2025 Authors: Emma Lee, Yiran Han, Justin Scott Our group consists of Emma Lee, Yiran Han, and Justin Scott. For this project we have decided to make our Video presentation on procrastination. More specifically, we will be examining 3 aspects: What is procrastination? Why do we procrastinate? and 5 tips to stop…
Design Process The design process is more than a checklist of steps — it is a mindset that emphasizes exploration, iteration, and reflection. As outlined in this week’s reading, an effective design process moves through the phases of Understand, Plan, Try, and Reflect, allowing designers to shift between divergent thinking and convergent thinking. What makes…
I chose Amy Adkins’s TED-Ed video “Why Do We Dream?” Since it turns a universal mystery into learnable pieces. From a multimedia-learning lens, it maps neatly onto several of Mayer’s principles. The Multimedia principle states that people learn better from words and pictures together than from words alone. In this video, narrated explanations are paired…
Introduction: I would like to choose to focus on some basic statistical concepts, such as mean, median and mode. I believe these are essential foundations for understanding data in daily lifes. Since my major is statistics, I want to find a way to make these ideas more concrete and approachable—not only for myself, but also…
I think there are two things we need to pay special attention to when creating educational comics, namely typography and layout. Both of them have a crucial impact on how well readers absorb the comics’ content. If the visuals and the layout are insightful and clear, complex topics can be more easily understood. On the…
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