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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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Rey, Gunter Daniel – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2012
The seductive detail effect arises when people learn more deeply from a multimedia presentation when interesting but irrelevant adjuncts are excluded. However, previous studies about this effect are rather inconclusive and contained various methodical problems. The recent experiment attempted to overcome these methodical problems. Undergraduate…
Descriptors: Instructional Material Evaluation, Instructional Materials, Multimedia Materials, Undergraduate Students
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Rey, Gunter Daniel – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2011
The seductive detail principle asserts that people learn more deeply from a multimedia presentation when interesting but irrelevant adjuncts are excluded rather than included. However, critics could argue that studies about this principle contain methodological problems. The recent experiment attempts to overcome these problems. Students (N = 108)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Multimedia Materials, Instructional Materials
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Rey, Gunter Daniel – Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia, 2010
The article discusses problems that arise from comparing different kinds of presentation modes such as texts, pictures or animations with regard to learning outcome. These comparisons are confounded with or depend on other variables like quality of the instructional design, learning content, familiarity with the presentation mode as well as…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Teaching Methods, Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Retrieval