ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Ruth Colvin Clark is a recognized specialist in instructional design and evidence-based practice. She holds a doctorate in educational psychology and instructional technology from the University of Southern California. She has worked as a consultant, instructor, speaker, and writer for the past 30 years. Dr. Clark is a past president of the International Society for Performance Improvement and was honored in 2006 with the Thomas F. Gilbert Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement. Dr. Clark has authored seven books that translate instructional research into guidelines for practitioners, including the best-selling e-Learning and the Science of Instruction, coauthored with Dr. Richard E Mayer, as well as Evidence-Based Training Methods, third edition (2020).
Richard E. Mayer is Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and a BA in psychology from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His research interests are in applying the science of learning to education, with a focus on how to help people learn in ways so they can transfer what they have learned to new situations. His research is at the intersection of cognition, instruction, and technology, with current projects on multimedia learning, computer-supported learning, computer games for learning, learning in immersive virtual reality, learning with animated ...