Teaching with Instructional Video
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 22 April 2026
- 21 May 2026
- ISBN:
- 9781009776660
- 9781009776684
- Dimensions:
- (229 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.64kg, 304 Pages
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- Subjects:
- Teacher training and professional development, Education, Psychology, Educational Psychology
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Book description
Given the widespread usage of instructional video in both formal and informal education and training, there is a need to ensure what people are viewing can actually help them to learn. To address this gap, Teaching with Instructional Video takes an evidence-based approach that examines techniques that have been shown to improve learning from instructional videos. Featuring rich research evidence gleaned from rigorous scientific experiments alongside key theoretical contributions for cognitive and educational science, Richard E. Mayer describes practice-inspired methods to design effective instructional videos that enhance student learning. Written for educators and instructional designers as well as students and researchers across cognitive science, media communication, and educational theory, this book marks the latest example of the advances we are making in applying the science of learning to education.
Reviews
‘Instructional video is widespread in both informal and formal education globally. Richard E. Mayer provides evidence-based guidance that makes the science of designing effective instructional videos easy to understand and apply, grounding video design in decades of rigorous research and offering an invaluable resource for educators and instructional designers worldwide.’
Guido Makransky - Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
‘The only empirically based and theoretically grounded text providing a comprehensive review of the use of instructional video for teaching, by the leading scholar of multimedia learning.’
Jan L. Plass - Paulette Goddard Chair in Digital Media and Learning Sciences, New York University, USA
‘When reading a new book by Richard E. Mayer, I, like most of his readers, have very high expectations. And of course, Teaching with Instructional Video fully met my expectations using characteristic, highly engaging prose to communicate important information that we all need.’
John Sweller - Emeritus Professor of Educational Psychology, University of New South Wales, Australia
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