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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Effects of Varied Animation Strategies in Facilitating Animated Instruction
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Ausman, Bradley D.; Lin, Huifen; Kidwai, Khusro; Munyofu, Mine; Swain, William J.; Dwyer, Francis – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
The use of animation and audio as a virtual panacea for everything from advertising to educational videos and instruction has created the presumption that any materials that use them 'must be better!' Now doubt that the addition of animation can improve message delivery on a number of scales, but the use of animation regardless of message and with…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Teaching Methods, Web Based Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction
Effect of Visual Scaffolding and Animation on Students? Performance on Measures of Higher Order Learning
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Kidwai, Khusro; Munyofu, Mine; Swain, William J; Ausman, Bradley D.; Lin, Huifen; Dwyer, Francis – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2001
Animation is being used extensively for instructional purposes; however, it has not been found to be effective on measures of higher order learning (concepts, rules, procedures) within the knowledge acquisition and knowledge integration domains. The purpose of this study was to examine the instructional effectiveness of two visual scaffolding…
Descriptors: Animation, Undergraduate Students, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Computer Assisted Instruction