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Peer reviewedMayer, Richard E.; Heiser, Julie; Lonn, Steve – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2001
Presents research on and discusses the redundancy effect, consistent with a dual-channel theory of multimedia learning in which adding on-screen text can overload the visual information-processing channel, causing learners to split their visual attention between two sources. In research, lower transfer performance also occurred when interesting…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Information Theory, Multimedia Instruction
