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Richard E. Mayer (born 1947) is an American educational psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he has served since 1975. He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan (1973), and served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology at Indiana University (1973–1975).
Beginning with cognitive load theory as their motivating scientific premise, researchers such as Richard E. Mayer, John Sweller, and Roxana Moreno established within the scientific literature a set of multimedia instructional design principles that promote effective learning.
The Keys to the White House. The Keys to the White House is a prediction system for determining the outcome of presidential elections in the United States. It was developed by American historian Allan Lichtman and Russian geophysicist Vladimir Keilis-Borok in 1981, adapting prediction methods that Keilis-Borok designed for earthquake prediction.
Richard Meier (born October 12, 1934) is an American abstract artist and architect, whose geometric designs make prominent use of the color white. [1] A winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1984, Meier has designed several iconic buildings including the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and San Jose City Hall.
A pedagogical agent is designed to model the type of interactions between a student and another person. Mabanza and de Wet define it as "a character enacted by a computer that interacts with the user in a socially engaging manner". [1] A pedagogical agent can be assigned different roles in the learning environment, such as tutor or co-learner ...
Graphic organizer. A graphic organizer, also known as a knowledge map, concept map, story map, cognitive organizer, advance organizer, or concept diagram, is a pedagogical tool that uses visual symbols to express knowledge and concepts through relationships between them. [ 1 ] The main purpose of a graphic organizer is to provide a visual aid ...
Richard worked as a high school principal in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for more than four decades. He and John’s mother, Margaret Mayer, an English teacher, divorced in 2009.
Basic principles of learning (1975) Foundations of learning and memory (with Richard E. Mayer) (1978) Readings in learning and memory (editor, with Richard E. Mayer) (1979) Principles of animal learning and motivation (1982) The Individual in the economy (with Stephen E.G. Lea and Paul Webley) (1987) Psychology (with Kelly G. Shaver) (1993)