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 Types of Presences According to Cambridge Dictionary, one of the definition of presence is, the fact that someone or something is in a place which can be defined as the state of being present as well. In our educatioal experience, we come across different types of presences, all of which have meeting point with one another and each other which makes up educational experience at the end. These presences primarily are; social presence, cognitive presence, teaching presence and additionally transactional presence.  Social presence is being present in a community as a real person to interact, to express effectively, to communicate openly, to share experience. the common point of social presence with teaching presence is setting climate; with  cognitive presence is supporting discourse.  Cognitive presence, on the other hand, is constructing meaning through reflection which includes exploration, integration, resolution, idea generation, denotation. We develop critical thinking with our cog

 The Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning With the help of multimedia presentations, our sensory memory captures some words and pictures using our ears and eyes. These visuals or audials are selected and organised in our working memory as well as combining with our prior knowledge. At the end, when the information taken to the long term memory; the multimedia learning is completed. Of course, this is the simple way of explaining the working process of cognitive theory of multimedia learning. However, to have more elaborate information about Mayer's  Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, here's a video. Perhaps, with the help of a video ,which can be an example of multimedia presentation, it would be easier to understand better.