Learner mix As with almost any educational setting, the entry level knowledge and learning styles of the students will not be consistent. She reported significant differences leading her to postulate that an inductive learner in deductive instruction did not have sufficient opportunity to intellectually engage in and digest the information and derive meaningful personal categorizations. A deductive learner in inductive instruction was likely to become frustrated and lose attention when the instruction seemed unclear, with consequent loss in opportunities for instruction. Another difficulty comes when teaching educators about multimedia instruction. As suggested earlier, too much use of flashy technology can lead to trouble.
Communication is needed to motivate students.
Sometimes, this motivation is covert, such as the enthusiasm in instructors' voices that demonstrates their love for a subject. Although it is essential to any learning activity, communication also has the tendency to generate noise. Noise is information that is not part of the message but gets transmitted with it anyway. Currently there are instructors who put too many words on an overhead and make finding their instructional goals a complete mystery to the learner. The bad news is that, without some intervention, these folks will go on to develop more powerful instructional messes using multimedia.