Paul Smith (PS), an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Alverno College (Milwaukee, W.) conducted this issue's interview for The Generalist's Corner. He chose multimedia instructional techniques as his focus and interviewed Richard Velayo (RV) as our expert. Velayo is an Assistant Professor at Pace University (New York, NY) and has made presentations on the topic of multimedia instruction at regional and national psychology conferences.
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