Studies show that e-learning courses are no more effective than traditional classrooms. It isn’t so much which is more effective as it is which avenue fits the student’s life style the best and how well we as instructors have done in designing the course. The multimedia rules outline principles that are relevant to the use of multimedia sources in education that will enhance and expedite a student’s level of comprehension. In both the traditional classroom and the virtual classroom, it is the instructional methods that support the learning of the content. Instructional methods include techniques such as examples, practice exercises, and feedback. There are eight multimedia principles, the Multimedia Principle, the Contiguity Principle, the Modality Principle, the Redundancy Principle, the Coherence Principle, the Personalization Principle, the Segmenting and Pretraining Principles. There are three metaphors of learning; Learning involves strengthening correct responses and weakening incorrect responses, learning involves adding new information to your memory, Learning involves making sense of the presented material by attending to relevant information, mentally reorganizing it, and connecting it with what you already know The last metaphor has to do with the knowledge construction theory, which holds that instructors must also guide the learner’s cognitive processing during learning, thereby enabling and encouraging learners to actively process the information. You should be aware of the cognitive stages of leaning when designing your e-learning courses. The three cognitive processes that are occurring in the multimedia principles; the first is selecting words and images, enter the learner’s cognitive processing system, hearing and vision or more specifically printed words through the eyes, and spoken words enter through the ears. Then the second thing that happens is that the second step is to mentally organize the selected material in mentally into logical verbal and images; and the final step is to integrate this knowledge with each other and existing knowledge. Research in cognitive science suggest that people have separate avenues for processing images and sounds; people can actively process only a few pieces of information in each avenue at one time, learning occurs when students attend to relevant information, organizing it into a logical structure, and integrating it with what they already know, and finally new knowledge and skills must be retrieved from long term memory during performance. The contiguity principle involves the need to coordinate printed words and graphics, and another part of the contiguity principle deals with the need to coordinate spoken words and graphics. Narration should play at the same time as the animation or video, for instance a process br