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Mayer's Multimedia Principles

A before/after e-learning module in Adobe Captivate that walks teachers-turned-designers from a bad slide to an okay one.

Role
Instructional designer / developer
Period
2020
  • adobe-captivate
  • scorm
  • visual-design
  • chunking
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A self-paced module in Serbian, aimed at teachers transitioning into instructional design. The pedagogy is the content: see a common bad slide, then redesign it live against Mayer’s principles.

The design move

Instead of explaining each principle abstractly, every principle appears as a redesign of the same slide. The learner watches — and sometimes does — the chunking, the redundancy removal, the signalling. The payoff is cumulative: by the end, the slide looks unrecognizable next to its opening state.

Why it’s here

Teachers entering ID almost never struggle with pedagogy. They struggle with visual design and chunking information in self-paced formats. This module targets exactly that gap, with the bad slide as the honest starting point.