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The Complexity of Tool Use in Computer-Based Learning Environments
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Clarebout, Geraldine; Elen, Jan – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
Starting from Perkins' (1985) framework, this study addresses tool use in a computer-based learning environment. In line with Perkins, first the effects of tool use on performance were investigated to gain insight into the functionality of the tools. Next, the influence of advice was studied to identify whether this advice could make students more…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Research Design, Goal Orientation
Multimedia Design Principles in the Psychomotor Domain: The Effect of Multimedia and Spatial Contiguity on Students' Learning of Basic Life Support with Task Cards
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Iserbyt, Peter; Mols, Liesbet; Elen, Jan; Behets, Daniel – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2012
This study adds to the literature by introducing multimedia research in the psychomotor area. In this study, 87 freshman students in pedagogy used task cards to learn Basic Life Support (BLS), a psychomotor skill consisting of nine lifesaving actions to be performed in a specific order. Task cards are printed materials and are often implemented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Test Results, Printed Materials, Psychomotor Objectives
Animated Pedagogical Agents: An Opportunity To Be Grasped?
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Clarebout, Geraldine; Elen, Jan; Johnson, W. Lewis; Shaw, Erin – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2002
Explores possibilities of animated pedagogical agents to enhance the use of support tools in open learning environments. Constructs a typology to describe and compare different pedagogical agents from an instructional design perspective; analyzes currently available pedagogical agents; and reviews empirical research on pedagogical agents in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Educational Environment