This research aims to investigate the affects and advantages of the various media so that instructions and learning can be more effective. The principle of redundancy states that students learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration, and text. This study applied the redundancy principle and investigated how students benefited from different types of animation and mod...

This paper reports on the design and development of custom animation software to enhance comprehension and design of micro-processing systems. The purpose of the custom software is to be used as a tool for teaching second/third year undergraduate computer/electrical engineering students the basic concepts surrounding microinstruction based microprocessors and systems. The tool enhances comprehe...

Research carried out so far has failed to establish systematic learning benefits of animated graphics over static ones, even in the case of dynamic systems. We hypothesize that animation promotes the understanding of dynamic systems if delivery features decrease the perceptual and cognitive load of processing the animation. We therefore report an experimental study investigating the effects of ...

This research project investigates the relationship between computer animation and language; specifically, developing utilities to generate animation from natural language instructions. Methods for specifying simulations at a task-level rather than at the level of individual motions are discussed. We envision a system which would allow engineers or technical staff who currently write instructio...

The talking‐head animation is an instructional animation capable of improving the communication skills through enhancing the pronunciation skills; whereby a word is pronounced correctly and accurately. This had been proven by several researches, which indicate that learning with interactive animation is much more advantageous than conventional learning. Hence, the...

Three experiments investigated the use of interactive animation and virtual models to train a spatial visualization skill, the ability to represent the two-dimensional cross section of a three-dimensional object. Trained participants significantly outperformed controls and showed limited transfer to untrained stimuli. Results were interpreted with respect to three theoretical accounts of improv...

background: video-based instruction has been stated as an effective method of teaching and its potentials have encouraged instructors learners to opt this method purpose: the current study has compared the students' cognitive learning in the two approaches of lecture- based and video-based teaching. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 88 senior nursing students who were rand...

This paper will present the preliminary findings of a pilot study. Participants were randomly assigned into one of two groups, those receiving instruction 1) with subtitles (redundant text); & 2) instruction without subtitles. A diagnostic test was used to categorize learners as 1) having symptoms consistent with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD); or 2) non-ADHD learners. Two perf...