Students learned toy assembly sequences presented in picture, text, or one of three multimedia formats, and completed order verification, recall, and object assembly tasks. Experiment 1 compared repetitious (i.e. dual format presentations each conveying similar information) with complementary (i.e. dual format presentations each conveying different information) multimedia presentations. Repetit...

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A multimedia degree program for educating new engineers for new themes is described. The subject of Computational Visualistics was introduced at the University of Magdeburg, Germany, in the fall of 1996. This five-year diploma program has computer science courses as its core: students learn about digital methods and electronic tools for solving picture-related problems. The technological areas ...

Recent studies have shown that the positive emotional design of learning environments might foster learning performance. In contrast, the seductive detail effect postulates that additional, learning irrelevant details inhibit learning. This research focusses on the implementation of decorative pictures as a prime for emotions and context-relatedness. This study examines four groups of decorativ...

Multimedia learning involved learning with multiple media (e.g., text, pictures, video). In an experiment examining the seductive details effect of multimedia learning, 78 participants recruited from a middle school in China were randomly assigned to study one of three learning materials (no seductive details, seductive details at the beginning, and seductive details at the end) about the econo...