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On Opportunities and Challenges of Large Multimodal Foundation Models in Education
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Stefan Küchemann; Karina E. Avila; Yavuz Dinc; Chiara Hortmann; Natalia Revenga; Verena Ruf; Niklas Stausberg; Steffen Steinert; Frank Fischer; Martin Fischer; Enkelejda Kasneci; Gjergji Kasneci; Thomas Kuhr; Gitta Kutyniok; Sarah Malone; Michael Sailer; Albrecht Schmidt; Matthias Stadler; Jochen Weller; Jochen Kuhn – npj Science of Learning, 2025
Recently, the option to use large language models as a middleware connecting various AI tools and other large language models led to the development of so-called large multimodal foundation models, which have the power to process spoken text, music, images and videos. In this overview, we explain a new set of opportunities and challenges that…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Models, Intermode Differences
Psychological Expedient of Multimedia in Blended Learning and Metamemory Satisfaction
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Garima Saini; Mubashir Majid Baba – Learning Organization, 2024
Purpose: Multimedia facilitates knowledge acquisition, which has a significant impact on students' learning and is a big potential of information and communication technology. Learning through multimedia has psychological benefits for the learner in addition to being used for recreational learning. To define the cognitive theory of multimedia in…
Descriptors: Blended Learning, Multimedia Materials, Memory, Learning Modalities
Critically Reading Multimodal Texts in the College Composition Classroom: Curriculum and Experiences with Multilingual Learners
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Zawan Al Bulushi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The number of multilingual students is increasing every year in the U.S. educational institutions. According to the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), the number of international students in the United States has doubled in the past ten years, from 547,873 in 2000-2001 to 1,095,299 students in 2018-2019 (NCES, 2021). This rise…
Descriptors: Learning Modalities, Multimedia Materials, Writing (Composition), Multilingualism
Chinese Primary School Teachers' Perceptions of Social Media-Based Microlearning for Improving Students' English-Speaking Abilities
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Ping Ning; Dorothy Dewitt; Hai-Leng Chin; Yanling Li; Guoguo Liu – Journal of Information Technology Education: Research, 2024
Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to identify primary school teachers' perceptions of leveraging social media-based microlearning to improve students' English-speaking abilities. Background: The value of social media as an effective educational tool for English language learning has been recognized by educators in higher education in China. However,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Social Media, Microcredentials
Designing Interactions for Learning: Physicality, Interactivity, and Interface Effects in Digital Environments
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Hoffman, Daniel L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of the study is to better understand the role of physicality, interactivity, and interface effects in learning with digital content. Drawing on work in cognitive science, human-computer interaction, and multimedia learning, the study argues that interfaces that promote physical interaction can provide "conceptual leverage"…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Electronic Learning, Man Machine Systems
Enacting Policy, Curriculum and Teacher Conceptualisations of Multimodal Literacy and English in Assessment and Accountability
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Cumming, Joy; Kimber, Kay; Wyatt-Smith, Claire – English in Australia, 2012
This article examines synergies and gaps in the construction of English, literacy, multimodality in policy and curriculum in Australian education with a focus on current assessment practices and educational accountability in order to make recommendations for future practice for teachers and for policy-makers. The article builds on analyses of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Policy, Educational Policy, Literacy
Effects of Podcasts in Higher Education on the Achievement of Learning Objectives
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Evans-Waughen, Kristen – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Technology resources such as podcasts allow users to connect to the World Wide Web to download audio files to listen to anytime and anywhere and are slowly being introduced in classrooms as an educational tool and as a resource in the e-learning environment. Past studies have examined the relationship between the use of technology as a teaching…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Hypermedia, Multimedia Materials, Influence of Technology