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Daniela Decker; Martin Merkt – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: Virtual reality (VR) offers much potential for learning, but it challenges learners' orientation. Objectives: This paper investigates whether it is possible to use light or movement cues to facilitate orientation in a search task in a desktop-VR environment so that participants can better attend to the learning content presented…
Descriptors: Cues, Educational Technology, Computer Simulation, Light
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Patcharin Panjaburee; Gwo-Jen Hwang; Ungsinun Intarakamhang; Niwat Srisawasdi; Pawat Chaipidech – Cogent Education, 2024
Previous studies have designed educational methods to cultivate digital citizenship behavior and support the construction of knowledge. However, these methods have not well incorporated personalized feedback mechanisms for enhancing digital citizenship knowledge. Therefore, this study proposed an algorithm that combines concept-effect propagation,…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Individualized Instruction, Outcomes of Education, Visual Learning
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Zheng, Xudong; Ma, Yunfei; Yue, Tingyan; Yang, Xianmin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2023
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of different types of cues and self-explanation prompts in instructional videos on intrinsic motivation, learning engagement, learning outcomes, and cognitive load, which were indicators to measure deep learning performance. Seventy-two college students were randomly assigned to one of the…
Descriptors: Cues, Reflection, Prompting, Video Technology
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Zhu, Jiawen; Dawson, Kara; Ritzhaupt, Albert D.; Antonenko, Pavlo – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2020
This study investigated the effects of multimedia and modality design principles using a learning intervention about Australia with a sample of college students and employing measures of learning outcomes, visual attention, satisfaction, and mental effort. Seventy-five college students were systematically assigned to one of four conditions: a)…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, College Students, Multimedia Instruction
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Chen, Zhi-Hong; Wang, Sheng-Chun – Educational Technology & Society, 2018
Educational agents (including animal companions) are a kind of interface agent, which is a significant component in educational systems, and has great impacts on student learning. However, with the development of emerging technologies (e.g., tangible technology), few studies have yet investigated how tangible technology can be used to combine with…
Descriptors: Animals, Man Machine Systems, Learning Processes, Attention
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Sun, Zhong; Jiang, Yuzhen – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
Digital textbooks that offer multimedia features, interactive controls, e-annotation and learning process tracking are gaining increasing attention in today's mobile learning era, particularly with the rapid development of mobile learning terminals such as Apple's iPad series and Android-based models. Accordingly, this study explores how…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Electronic Publishing, Telecommunications
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Feng, Mingyu, Ed.; Käser, Tanja, Ed.; Talukdar, Partha, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2023
The Indian Institute of Science is proud to host the fully in-person sixteenth iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) during July 11-14, 2023. EDM is the annual flagship conference of the International Educational Data Mining Society. The theme of this year's conference is "Educational data mining for…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Data Analysis, Computer Assisted Testing, Cheating
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Tindall-Ford, Sharon; Agostinho, Shirley; Bokosmaty, Sahar; Paas, Fred; Chandler, Paul – Educational Technology & Society, 2015
This research investigated the viability of learning by self-managing split-attention worked examples as an alternative to learning by studying instructor-managed integrated worked examples. Secondary school students learning properties of angles on parallel lines were taught to integrate spatially separated text and diagrammatic information by…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Computer Uses in Education, Self Management
Gr ver Aukrust, Vibeke, Ed. – Elsevier, 2011
This collection of 58 articles from the recently-published third edition of the International Encyclopedia of Education focuses on learning, memory, attention, problem solving, concept formation, and language. Learning and cognition is the foundation of cognitive psychology and encompasses many topics including attention, memory, categorization,…
Descriptors: Memory, Concept Formation, Cognitive Psychology, Problem Solving
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Dwyer, Francis M. – Journal of Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention, College Students, Cues
Taylor, C. David – 1992
This paper discusses the factors involved in making decisions about a multimedia display system. Theoretical factors, including gaining and holding learner attention, specific attention-getting devices, encoding and retrieval of information by learners, and presentation of information are considered. Ways that video is associated with computer…
Descriptors: Attention, Case Studies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development
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Andres, Hayward P.; Petersen, Candice – Journal of Educational Technology Systems, 2002
Cognitive processing limitations restrict the number of complex information items held and processed in human working memory. To overcome such limitations, a verbal working memory channel is used to construct an if-then proposition representation of facts and a visual working memory channel is used to construct a visual imagery of geometric…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Multimedia Instruction, Verbal Ability
Travers, Robert M. W.; And Others – 1967
Psychological and physiological concepts about information transmission are reviewed with a view toward uncovering principles useful to the design of audiovisual teaching materials. Audiovisual materials which transmit information via the visual or auditory channels are considered, including sound motion pictures, film strips, and audio…
Descriptors: Attention, Audiodisc Recordings, Audiotape Recordings, Audiovisual Aids
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers