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Cognitive Constraints on Multimedia Learning: When Presenting More Material Results in Less Understanding.

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Mayer, Richard E.; Heiser, Julie; Lonn, Steve – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001

Presents research on and discusses the redundancy effect, consistent with a dual-channel theory of multimedia learning in which adding on-screen text can overload the visual information-processing channel, causing learners to split their visual attention between two sources. In research, lower transfer performance also occurred when interesting…

Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Information Theory, Multimedia Instruction

Supporting Visual and Verbal Learning Preferences in a Second-Language Multimedia Learning Environment.

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Plass, Jan L.; Chun, Dorothy M.; Mayer, Richard E.; Leutner, Detlev – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1998

English-speaking college students (n=103) enrolled in a German course read a German story presented by a computer program which allowed them to choose a verbal or visual (picture or video clip) translation. Students remembered word translations better when they saw both annotations. Implications for a theory of multimedia learning are discussed.…

Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Computer Uses in Education, German, Higher Education