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Investigating How Multimedia and Modality Design Principles Influence Student Learning Performance, Satisfaction, Mental Effort, and Visual Attention
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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
Developing Language and (Pre)literacy Skills in Deaf Preschoolers through Shared Reading Activities with Bimodal-Bilingual eBooks
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Mirus, Gene; Napoli, Donna Jo – Journal of Multilingual Education Research, 2019
Encouraging relaxed and playful interaction over stories naturally fosters language interaction and both preliteracy [hereafter (pre)literacy skills] and literacy without anxiety. Reading for pleasure is valuable for young hearing children -- we know that, it is among the most beloved family rituals. In this article we argue that reading for…
Descriptors: Deafness, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Recreational Reading
Slide Presentations as Speech Suppressors: When and Why Learners Miss Oral Information
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Wecker, Christof – Computers & Education, 2012
The objective of this study was to test whether information presented on slides during presentations is retained at the expense of information presented only orally, and to investigate part of the conditions under which this effect occurs, and how it can be avoided. Such an effect could be expected and explained either as a kind of redundancy…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Attention, Hypothesis Testing
Short and Sweet: Technology Shrinks the Lecture
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Young, Jeffrey R. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Many professors who have ventured into online education are finding that shorter, modular clips are a more successful teaching approach than traditional 50-minute lectures. The author cites educators from several institutions who have adapted smaller, 15-20 minute instructional units originally developed for online courses, to their face-to-face…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Teaching Methods, Educational Change, Attention
Information Processing Theory: Classroom Applications.
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Slate, John R.; Charlesworth, John R., Jr. – Reading Improvement, 1989
Utilizes the information processing model of human memory to provide teachers with suggestions for improving the teaching-learning process. Briefly explains and specifies applications of major theoretical concepts: attention, active learning, meaningfulness, organization, advanced organizers, memory aids, overlearning, automatically, and…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Attention, Elementary Education, Individual Differences
Process Deficits in Learning Disabled Children and Implications for Reading.
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Johnson, Doris J. – 1976
An exploration of specific deficits of learning disabled children, especially in the auditory system, is presented in this paper. Disorders of attention, perception, phonemic and visual discrimination, memory, and symbolization and conceptualization are considered. The paper develops several questions for teachers of learning disabled children to…
Descriptors: Attention, Beginning Reading, Conference Reports, Diagnostic Teaching