Slides Design Guidelines

They are handouts and videos I created that illustrate essential pedagogic design principles for designing presentation slides. They can be handy tools for a course instructor when making slides.

PowerPoint Style & Content Design Guidelines & Expectations

I created these guidelines in 2019 to streamline and speed up the PPT design and redesign processes at the UNL College of Business. Instructors who are redesigning their online course needed to perform the listed tasks prior to having their slides reviewed by an instructional designer for feedback and revision.

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13 Classic Principles of Multimedia Learning

I created this video in 2015 to summarize and illustrate the classic principles of multimedia learning (Mayer, 2014). This is an updated version of my earlier video on the multimedia learning principles (Mayer, 2005). This is also a video version of my Multimedia Learning Principles Design Checklist.

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Animation Principles

I created these three videos in 2015 to summarize and illustrate the animation principles (Mayer, 2014) and how the principles should be applied when designing a video.