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Download full textConroy, Arthur Thomas, III – Commission for International Adult Education, 2016
This article describes a visual language comprised of abstract shapes that has been shown to be effective in communicating prior knowledge between and within members of a small team or group. The visual language includes a set of geometric shapes and rules that guide the construction of the abstract diagrams that are the external representation of…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Visual Learning, Language Acquisition, Cognitive Processes
Beckmann, Jennifer; Bertel, Sven; Zander, Steffi – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
Adaptive e-Learning systems are able to adjust to a user's learning needs, usually by user modeling or tracking progress. Such learner-adaptive behavior has rapidly become a hot topic for e-Learning, furthered in part by the recent rapid increase in the use of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). A lack of general, individual, and situational data…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Cognitive Style, Visual Learning, Verbal Learning
Mironova, Olga; Amitan, Irina; Vendelin, Jelena; Vilipõld, Jüri; Saar, Merike – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2015
The present paper introduces some strategies used in teaching an Informatics course for non-IT first year university students. The strategies were developed during several years, using the main principles of flexible and blended learning. The methodology has been based on the results of experiments with students from social sciences, economics and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, College Freshmen, Information Science Education, College Instruction
Cleaver, Betty P.; And Others – 1993
This paper examines children's responses to black and white illustrations in particular silhouettes. The study had two components; the first examined fifth graders' reactions to picture books using silhouette illustrations. The second part of the research analyzed students' responses when a dramatic context was used to view and respond to selected…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Illustrations, Imagination, Intermediate Grades
Dwyer, Carol A. – 1987
The purpose of this study was to determine whether different types of practice strategies are equally effective in facilitating encoding strategies and in subsequent information acquisition and retrieval by students identified as possessing high, medium, and low prior knowledge levels in a content area. Within the context of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Drills (Practice), Encoding (Psychology)
Hobbs, Renee – 1986
Noting that both the structural characteristics of television and the characteristics of the viewer may influence comprehension of television news, a study tested the hypothesis that the synchronous presentation of television news will maximize learning for viewers with low prior knowledge of program content. Synchronous and nonsynchronous…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, College Freshmen, Comparative Analysis
