REDUNDANCY PRINCIPLE #2

Sunday, September 4, 2016


What is the Redundancy Principle #2?

The Redundancy Principle indicates that when preparing a lesson, you should use audio or text but you should not use both at the same time.  When designing a course, students will become distracted if the words are displayed on the screen in conjunction with the audio.  While your desire might be for your students to learn about the graphic that is displayed, they will follow along with the audio and read the text.

The Redundancy Principle 2 focuses on the exceptions to that rule.  When students are learning a principle but there is no graphic to be seen, then you can use both audio and text.  This is a result of  having only one image on the screen in which to focus, the text.  Another instance can be when the students are learning to speak a second language.  Allowing students to view the new language and hear it, is crucial to helping them read and verbally  express the language in their own voice.


Demonstrating the Redundancy Principle 2 (or not)

The Redundancy principle emphasizes that we make a choice to either use audio or text when generating a lesson .  However when reviewing a series of instructional videos Learning to Speak Spanish we see that they allowed the words to be on the screen along with the audio.  It is during these exceptions that the Redundancy Principle 2 will be executed.

REFERENCES

Clark, R. C., & Mayer, R. E. (2011). E-learning and the science of instruction: Proven guidelines for consumers and designmers of multimedia learning. San Francisco: Pfeiffer