Review: Relationship between Cognitive Theory and Multimedia Instructional Design

Roy Rillera Marzo

Department of Global Health and Community Medicine, Asia Metropolitan University, Malaysia

Dr. Roy Rillera Marzo, Department of Global Health and Community Medicine, Asia Metropolitan University, Malaysia.

Keywords: Cognitive Theory; Multimedia Instructional Design; Working Memory

Abstract

Context/Background of the Learning Resource
The online learning resource selected is a short animation of normal labor and vaginal birth. This learning resource is intended for third-year medical students in Obstetrics and Gynecology class. The rationale of the learning resource understands the process of normal labor and delivery allows optimal care and reassurance for the parturient and timely recognition of abnormal events. Learning objectives of this lesson are first, to identify the different stages of labor and second, to recognize physical findings indicative of maternal progress during labor. The learning resource chosen had 469,543 views and was published May 2013. It was developed by 7 activestudio who won the Best Educational Content Creator Award last 2012 and the best choice of 3d animation studio for medical sciences with 140,769 subscribers.

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