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The Case for Embodied Instruction: The Instructor as a Source of Attentional and Social Cues in Video Lectures
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Stull, Andrew T.; Fiorella, Logan; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
This study explores the role of the instructor's face and eye gaze as social and attentional cues in promoting learning from a video lecture on kidney physiology. In a 2 × 2 between-subjects design, 133 college students were randomly assigned to a gaze behavior condition and a video whiteboard type condition. The instructor either shifted her gaze…
Descriptors: Human Body, Observation, Eye Movements, Attention
Coordinating Visual and Auditory Cueing in Multimedia Learning
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Xie, Heping; Mayer, Richard E.; Wang, Fuxing; Zhou, Zongkui – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Providing single-modality cueing (either visual cueing or auditory cueing) in multimedia lessons does not consistently improve learning outcomes. In 3 eye-tracking experiments, some students learned an onscreen lesson with an oral explanation of graphics and then took a posttest on the material (no cues group). Across all 3 experiments, students…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Prompting, Visual Stimuli, Auditory Stimuli
Using Eye Movements to Measure Intrinsic, Extraneous, and Germane Load in a Multimedia Learning Environment
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Zu, Tianlong; Hutson, John; Loschky, Lester C.; Rebello, N. Sanjay – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
In a previous study, DeLeeuw and Mayer (2008) found support for the triarchic model of cognitive load (Sweller, Van Merriënboer, & Paas, 1998, 2019) by showing that three different metrics could be used to independently measure 3 hypothesized types of cognitive load: intrinsic, extraneous, and germane. However, 2 of the 3 metrics that the…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Multimedia Instruction
Getting the Point: Which Kinds of Gestures by Pedagogical Agents Improve Multimedia Learning?
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Li, Wenjing; Wang, Fuxing; Mayer, Richard E.; Liu, Huashan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Previous studies have shown that students learn better from an online lesson when a gesturing pedagogical agent is added (Mayer & DaPra, 2012; Wang, Li, Mayer, & Liu, 2018). The goal of this study is to pinpoint which aspect of a gesturing pedagogical agent causes an improvement in learning from an online lesson. College students learned…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Nonverbal Communication, Electronic Learning, Eye Movements
Animated Pedagogical Agents as Aids in Multimedia Learning: Effects on Eye-Fixations during Learning and Learning Outcomes
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Wang, Fuxing; Li, Wenjing; Mayer, Richard E.; Liu, Huashan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
The goal of the present study is to determine how to incorporate social cues such as gesturing in animated pedagogical agents (PAs) for online multimedia lessons in ways that promote student learning. In 3 experiments, college students learned about synaptic transmission from a multimedia narrated presentation while their eye movements were…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multimedia Instruction, Cues, Nonverbal Communication
Explaining Pictures: How Verbal Cues Influence Processing of Pictorial Learning Material
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Glaser, Manuela; Schwan, Stephan – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
While to date, multimedia research has examined mainly the learning of texts with accompanying pictures, in the current paper, 2 experiments are presented that examine the multimedia effect for pictures with accompanying spoken text. In Experiment 1, we examined whether learning is better with a multimedia presentation in which pictorial…
Descriptors: Cues, Pictorial Stimuli, Verbal Communication, Teaching Methods