Richard E. Mayer

Richard E. Mayer
Prof. Richard E. Mayer - On the role and design of video for learning. 2011
Born	1947
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Miami University, University of Michigan
Awards	E. L. Thorndike Award (2000) James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award (2018)
Scientific career
Fields	Psychology, Education
Institutions	University of California, Santa Barbara

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).

Mayer has made significant contributions to theories of

He is the year 2000 recipient of the E. L. Thorndike Award for career achievement in educational psychology, and the winner of 2008 Distinguished Contribution of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award from the American Psychological Association. He was ranked #1 as the most productive educational psychologist in the world for 1997–2001.^[1]

Writings

Mayer is the author of more than 390 publications including 23 books on education and multimedia. A selection:

• Multimedia Learning. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  ISBN 978-0-521-78749-9
• Learning and Instruction. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Merrill, 2003
  ISBN 978-0-13-098396-1
• With Clark, Ruth Colvin. E-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2003.
  ISBN 978-0-7879-6051-3
• The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning. Cambridge, U.K.:
  ISBN 978-0-521-83873-3
• The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning Second Edition. Cambridge, U.K.:
  ISBN 978-0-521-51412-5

External links

• Richard Mayer bio, University of California, Santa Barbara

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