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Direct linkMerkt, Martin; Weigand, Sonja; Heier, Anke; Schwan, Stephan – Learning and Instruction, 2011
Two complementary studies, one in the laboratory and one in the field, compared the usage patterns and the effectiveness of interactive videos and illustrated textbooks when German secondary school students learned complex content. For this purpose, two videos affording different degrees of interactivity and a content-equivalent illustrated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Printed Materials, Use Studies, Instructional Effectiveness
Mayer, Richard E. – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The author examines the empirical, methodological, theoretical, and practical contributions of the six studies in this special issue on eye tracking as a tool to study and enhance multimedia learning. The design of learning environments involving graphics should be consistent with a research-based theory of how people learn and evidence-based…
Descriptors: Human Body, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Graphics, Educational Technology
Rasch, Thorsten; Schnotz, Wolfgang – Learning and Instruction, 2009
New technologies enable flexible combinations of text and interactive or non-interactive pictures. The aim of the present study was to investigate (a) whether adding pictures to texts is generally beneficial for learning or whether it can also have detrimental effects, (b) how interactivity of pictures affects learning, (c) whether the…
Descriptors: Visualization, Instructional Effectiveness, Outcomes of Education, Visual Aids
Jamet, Eric; Gavota, Monica; Quaireau, Christophe – Learning and Instruction, 2008
Comprehension of an illustrated document can involve complex visual scanning in order to locate the relevant information on the screen when this is evoked in spoken explanations. The present study examined the effects of two types of attention-guiding means (color change or step-by-step presentation of diagram elements synchronized with a spoken…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Instructional Design, Attention Control, Learning Modalities
Catrambone, Richard; Yuasa, Mashiho – Learning and Instruction, 2006
This study explored the effects of active learning and types of elaboration on procedure acquisition (writing database queries). Training materials emphasized elaborations of conditions for executing actions versus elaborations of the connection between conditions and actions. In the "active" conditions, participants performed structured exercises…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Programming
Kapa, Esther – Learning and Instruction, 2007
A new computerized environment introducing a variety of metacognitive support mechanisms (MSMs) in different phases of the problem-solving process was designed to influence students' transfer from solving structured problems (near transfer) to solving open-ended problems (far transfer). Two hundred and thirty one students (aged 13-14 years) were…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
