Analysis of e-content of Khuzestan Province teachers during the COVID-19 period based on Mayer's principles

ABSTRACT

The current study investigates the e-content prepared by teachers during the COVID-19 period in terms of observing the principles of e-content design. Meyer's theory with 12 principles has been used for design principles. To this end, a checklist with 12 components with face validity and reliability of 0.78 from Cronbach's alpha test, and 275 educational videos produced by teachers in Khuzestan province based on available sampling method and based on 12 components of Mayer theory were reviewed by three educational technologist. The results revealed that the contents prepared in only three components ‘spatial contiguity', ‘segmentation' and ‘multimedia' at the level of 1% were significantly above average and the rest of the components were all significantly below average that include 8 components. The ‘pre-training' component was not significantly different from the mean. Generally, the results indicated that the e-content design principles were not significantly observed in the prepared e-content at the level of 1%. © 2023 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.. All rights reserved.