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Part V - Principles for Managing Essential Processing in Multimedia Learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2021

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Richard E. Mayer  and
Logan Fiorella
Richard E. Mayer
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University of California, Santa Barbara
Logan Fiorella
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University of Georgia
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The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning , pp. 241 - 274
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