1. CHAPER 7&8: COHERENCE & PERSONALIZATION Jasper (Jia) Pan Nov
CHAPER 7&8: COHERENCE & PERSONALIZATION Jasper (Jia) Pan Nov EDUC391 Web Based Technology in Teaching and Learning

2. Apply the Coherence Principle
Psychological Reasons
Apply the Coherence Principle
Do not overload the learner’s cognitive load
Preventing distraction, disruption and seduction
Do not include extraneous sounds as background music or unrelated environmental sounds
Do not use none-essential graphics/video clips
Present content in lean text/narration that presents the main points
Limits of Coherence Principle: if motivation is an higher level problem of the e-learning system, then the coherence principle should be over ruled

3. Apply the Personalization Principle
Psychological Reasons
Apply the Personalization Principle
Engage learner
Help learners to make sense out of the content by the themselves
Create relevant environment to learners
Speak in conversational language by using “you”, “your”, “I” etc.
Coaching provided via conversational narration from onscreen characters (Agent)
Visually realistic or line art
Dialog via audio narration
Voice natural and conversational
Serve a valid instructional purpose
Limits of Personalization principle: Personalization degree should be limited by environment or condition of learner (I.e. narration cannot be used in low bandwidth)