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Chou, Chih-Yueh; Liang, Hung-Ta – Educational Technology & Society, 2009
Self-explaining, which asks students to generate explanations while reading a text, is a self-constructive activity and is helpful for students' learning. Studies have revealed that prompts by a human tutor promote students' self-explanations. However, most studies on self-explaining focus on spoken self-explanations. This study investigates the…
Descriptors: Prompting, Computer Uses in Education, Office Occupations, Computer Interfaces
Oviatt, Sharon L.; Cohen, Adrienne O. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2010
From a theoretical viewpoint, educational interfaces that facilitate communicative actions involving representations central to a domain can maximize students' effort associated with constructing new schemas. In addition, interfaces that minimize working memory demands due to the interface per se, for example by mimicking existing non-digital work…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Short Term Memory, Science Education, Computer Interfaces
Cheon, Jongpil; Grant, Michael M. – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2009
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of three different interface types on Web-based instruction: a text-based interface, a graphical interface and a metaphorical interface. In order to determine differences among three interface groups, we compared learning performance, cognitive load, usability, and appeal with various data…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Web Based Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Interfaces
Kong, Siu Cheung; Yeung, Yau Yuen; Wu, Xian Qiu – Computers & Education, 2009
In order to facilitate senior primary school students in Hong Kong to engage in learning by observation of the phenomena related to electrical circuits, a design of a specific courseware system, of which the interactive human-machine interface was created with the use of an open-source software called the LabVNC, for conducting online…
Descriptors: Observational Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Students
Ellington, Beth – Journal of Web Librarianship, 2008
This study evaluates the usability of the Journal Finder integrated search interface, developed at the Jackson Library at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This interface provides electronic access to publications including journals, newsletters, newspapers, and magazines. This study was conducted to determine how intuitive and…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Electronic Publishing, Protocol Analysis