It is the consensus among language educators that the objectives of teaching a second/foreign language (L2) put stress on the enhancement of students’ communication skills and advocate the importance of interaction in the classroom. In addition to theories and methods exclusively dedicated to language instruction, the domain-independent inquiry-based teaching, a cognitive approach, can be easil...

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the video on demand learning system. This study integrated the thematic instructional strategy into interactive video-based instruction based on the cognitive theory of multimedia learning and investigated the participant’s reflection and learning performance through post-test, IMMS and the experimental teaching activities. Under the self-co...

An attractive Multimedia contents in chemistry has been developed in both Tamil and English for 10 standard students. The chapters covered in this work are Periodic Classifications, Atomic Structure, Chemical Bonding, Phosphorous, Halogens, Metals, Organic Chemistry and Chemical Industry. The contents of the above topics have been created and carefully developed into a Multimedia self-learning ...

This study is based on the cognitive theory of multimedia learning to propose an alternative presentation integrating anchored strategy and modularity concept into a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation for classroom learning. With the anchored instructional strategy and rich visual interactivity, the presentation helps students to acquire more information and remember more ideas. In addition, inc...

Although problem solving supported by Cognitive Tutors has been shown to be successful in fostering initial acquisition of cognitive skills, this approach does not seem to be optimal with respect to focusing the learner on the domain principles to be learned. In order to foster a deep understanding of domain principles, we developed a Cognitive Tutor that contained, on the basis of the theoreti...

Cognitive flexibility is an integral part in adaptive behavior such as learning, and can be seen as one explaining factor in performance in various tasks. In this study, we explore the possibilities of a dynamic psychological test that can be administered online to assess cognitive flexibility and apply the test across a student population that is learning to program. While our results imply th...

Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Learning Systems (AEHS) have been developed and evaluated over the past decade. These AEHS tailored navigational support and presentation of content basing on either prior knowledge or cognitive styles of students separately. The empirical evaluations of the AEHS showed that, generally, there is positive improvement in the performance and perceptions of students....