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Ploetzner, Rolf; Berney, Sandra; Bétrancourt, Mireille – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2021
The results of three meta-analyses show that the effectiveness of learning from animations, when compared to learning from static pictures, is rather limited. A recent re-analysis of one of these meta-analyses, however, supports that learning from animations is considerably more effective than learning from static pictures if the specifics of the…
Descriptors: Animation, Pictorial Stimuli, Instructional Effectiveness, Performance Factors
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Habraken, Clarisse L. – Journal of Science Education and Technology, 2004
Today's "out-of-school learning" is dominated by PC games, videos, and TV. These media provide children with optimal conditions for nurturing their visuospatial intelligence. In "chemistry" and biochemistry, over the past 125 years, thinking has shifted from the "logical-mathematical" to the "logical-visuospatial." In chemistry visuospatial…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Science Instruction, Spatial Ability, Computers