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Unique Contributions of Eye-Tracking Research to the Study of Learning with Graphics
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Mayer, Richard E. – Learning and Instruction, 2010
The author examines the empirical, methodological, theoretical, and practical contributions of the six studies in this special issue on eye tracking as a tool to study and enhance multimedia learning. The design of learning environments involving graphics should be consistent with a research-based theory of how people learn and evidence-based…
Descriptors: Human Body, Multimedia Instruction, Computer Graphics, Educational Technology
Using Audiovisual TV Interviews to Create Visible Authors that Reduce the Learning Gap between Native and Non-Native Language Speakers
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Inglese, Terry; Mayer, Richard E.; Rigotti, Francesca – Learning and Instruction, 2007
Can archives of audiovisual TV interviews be used to make authors more visible to students, and thereby reduce the learning gap between native and non-native language speakers in college classes? We examined students in a college course who learned about one scholar's ideas through watching an audiovisual TV interview (i.e., visible author format)…
Descriptors: Affective Measures, Television, Second Language Learning, Interviews
Does the Modality Principle for Multimedia Learning Apply to Science Classrooms?
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Harskamp, Egbert G.; Mayer, Richard E.; Suhre, Cor – Learning and Instruction, 2007
This study demonstrated that the modality principle applies to multimedia learning of regular science lessons in school settings. In the first field experiment, 27 Dutch secondary school students (age 16-17) received a self-paced, web-based multimedia lesson in biology. Students who received lessons containing illustrations and narration performed…
Descriptors: Secondary School Science, Multimedia Instruction, Science Instruction, Biology
The Promise of Multimedia Learning: Using the Same Instructional Design Methods across Different Media.
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Mayer, Richard E. – Learning and Instruction, 2003
Reviewed research on the design of multimedia explanations. Findings show these effects of multimedia instructional design: (1) a multimedia effect; (2) a coherence effect; (3) a spatial contiguity effect; and (4) a personalization effect. Discusses each of these effects and shows how the same instructional design can be effective across different…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Learning, Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials
Aids to Computer-Based Multimedia Learning.
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Mayer, Richard E.; Moreno, Roxana – Learning and Instruction, 2002
Presents a cognitive theory of multimedia learning that draws on dual coding theory, cognitive load theory, and constructivist learning theory and derives some principles of instructional design for fostering multimedia learning. These include principles of multiple representation, contiguity, coherence, modality, and redundancy. (SLD)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Multimedia Instruction