Multimedia Learning in an Interactive Self-Explaining Environment: What Works in the Design of Agent-Based Microworlds?.

Mayer, Richard E.; Dow, Gayle T.; Mayer, Sarah

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ERIC Number: EJ678599

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Publication Date: 2003

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Multimedia Learning in an Interactive Self-Explaining Environment: What Works in the Design of Agent-Based Microworlds?

Mayer, Richard E.; Dow, Gayle T.; Mayer, Sarah

Journal of Educational Psychology, v95 n4 p806-12 Dec 2003

Students learned about electric motors by asking questions and receiving answers from an on-screen pedagogical agent named Dr. Phyz who stood next to an on-screen drawing of an electric motor. Results are consistent with a cognitive theory of multimedia learning and yield principles for the design of interactive multimedia learning environments. (Contains 18 references, 1 figure, and 1 appendix.) (GCP)

Descriptors: Educational Environment, Epistemology, Instructional Design, Learning Theories, Multimedia Instruction

Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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