This paper describes a study conducted in recognition of the increasingly widespread use of computers and the importance of exposure to instructional technologies in all aspects of poultry science curriculum. The study consisted of the distribution and analyses of two cross-sectional surveys to gather detailed information on the use of instructional technology (IT) in poultry science curricula ...

The focus of this special issue is on the cognitive load underlying processes of interactive knowledge construction in a wide range of instructional multimedia platforms. Multimedia comprehension involves the parallel processing of auditoryeverbal and visualepictorial channels within working memory. By means of integrating multimodal information, students are able to acquire new knowledge. Howe...

When health education researchers began to investigate how individuals make decisions related to health and the factors that influence health behaviors, they referred to frameworks shared by educational and learning research. Health education adopted the basic principles of the cognitive revolution, which were instrumental in advancing the field. There is currently a new challenge to confront: ...

During the last 100 years, a major accomplishment of psychology has been the development of a science of learning aimed at understanding how people learn. In attempting to apply the science of learning, a central challenge of psychology and education is the development of a science of instruction aimed at understanding how to present material in ways that help people learn. The author provides ...

The authors tested the recommendation that adding bells and whistles (in the form of background music and/or sounds) would improve the quality of a multimedia instructional message. In 2 studies, students received an animation and concurrent narration intended to explain the formation of lightning (Experiment 1) or the operation of hydraulic braking systems (Experiment 2). For some students, th...

convictions are strong that multimedia courseware holds great promise for enhancing learning efficiency among learners. this study thus aimed at comparing the effects of the multimedia programs introducing 100 vocabulary items through pictures and streaming video with those of teacher instruction on increasing efl learners’ vocabulary repertoire. a total of 120 subjects were identified as inter...

Abstract The use of computer-based tests (CBTs), for both formative and summative purposes, has greatly increased over the past years. One major advantage CBTs is easy integration multimedia. It unclear, though, how to design such CBT environments with purpose current study was examine whether guidelines designing multimedia instruction based on Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) Multimedia Learning (...

The integration of multimedia teaching refers to a novel mode that combines multimedia, information resources, and methods with content process in the guidance contemporary educational ideas organically unifies them on spatial temporal platform, so as better accomplish tasks. However, deepening network school connotation construction, various resources such media materials, courseware, courses,...

This paper outlines the evaluation criteria and the approach taken by the Biomedical Multimedia Unit (BMU) to evaluate multimedia technologies being developed in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne. In recent years greater emphasis has been placed on computer based learning in the Faculty. As a result a systematic program of evaluation was devel...