Fully revised with two new chapters and sixteen updated chapters, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning is your essential reference for evidence-based guidelines for designing, developing and evaluating asynchronous and synchronous e-Learning for workforce training and educational courseware.

Revised edition of the authors' E-learning and the science of instruction, 2011.

e-Learning: promise and pitfalls -- How do people learn from e-courses? -- Evidence-based practice -- Applying the multimedia principle: use words and graphics rather than words alone -- Applying the contiguity principle: align words to corresponding graphics -- Applying the modality principle: present words as audio narration rather than on-screen text -- Applying the redundancy principle: explain visuals with words in audio or text but not both -- Applying the coherence principle: adding extra material can hurt learning -- Applying the personalization and embodiment principles: use conversational style, polite wording, human voice, and virtual coaches -- Applying the segmenting and pretraining principles: managing complexity by breaking a lesson into parts -- Engagement in e-learning -- Leveraging examples in e-learning -- Does practice make perfect? -- Learning together virtually -- Who's in control? guidelines for e-learning navigation -- e-Learning to build thinking skills -- Learning with computer games -- Applying the guidelines.