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Mayer, Richard E. – Cambridge University Press, 2009
For hundreds of years verbal messages such as lectures and printed lessons have been the primary means of explaining ideas to learners. Although verbal learning offers a powerful tool, this book explores ways of going beyond the purely verbal. Recent advances in graphics technology and information technology have prompted new efforts to understand…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Verbal Learning, Multimedia Instruction, Epistemology
Calfee, Robert C. – 1969
Consideration of computer-assisted instruction in the classroom has led to an analysis of the educational process including the need for developing more adequate models of the learning processes and increased attention to the function of the teacher (human or computer) as a decision maker. Given a descriptive model of the learning process, it is…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Decision Making, Instructional Design, Instructional Improvement
PUCEL, DAVID J. – 1966
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A TYPICAL METHOD OF ORGANIZING TECHNICAL INFORMATION SHEETS USED BY VOCATIONAL EDUCATORS TO PROVIDE UP-TO-DATE INSTRUCTION TO STUDENTS WAS COMPARED TO THAT OF TWO NEWLY DEVELOPED ORGANIZATIONS BASED ON "THE SUBSUMPTION THEORY OF MEANINGFUL VERBAL LEARNING AND RETENTION" (AUSUBEL, 1962). AN OPERATIONAL DEFINITION…
Descriptors: Ability, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials, Learning Processes
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Johnson, Ronald E. – Review of Educational Research, 1975
The importance of the role of meaningfulness as a learning variable is discussed. (DEP)
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Instructional Design, Interpretive Skills, Learning Motivation
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Jaspers, Fons – Educational and Training Technology International, 1994
Discusses individual perceptional modality preferences, including verbalization versus visualization, reading versus listening, and audio versus video. Literature on perception and on mental representation and learning styles is reviewed, and theoretical and practical implications for instructional materials design are suggested, including the use…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Formative Evaluation, Instructional Design, Instructional Materials
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Kraft, Goldie S.; And Others – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 1985
Describes two experiments in which high school students who studied a map/prose combination expected either a spatial/locational or verbal/event posttest. Results indicate test expectation instructions significantly influenced kinds of information students were able to recall, and type of preinstructional expectation had a pronounced effect on how…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Expectation, Geographic Location, Instructional Design