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Summary: Instructor-managed physical integration of mutually dependent, but spatially separated materials, is an effective way to overcome negative effects of split-attention on learning. This study examined whether teaching students to self-manage split-attention materials would be effective for learning. Seventy-eight primary-school students learned about the water cycle, either by studying s...

THE CENTER for Curriculum Materials in Science (CCMS) and the Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) Center promote the design of curriculum materials and technology tools that help students develop an understanding of important connections among science ideas and the inclination and ability to use those ideas to make sense of the world. Researchers at both centers analyze the fragmente...

An ongoing trend of e-learning systems is to not only concentrate on the management of learning materials and other information, but instead to focus on learning processes. Thus a stronger focus is put on the people engaged in learning activities: the learners which shall be served by an e-learning system and the teachers who instruct and guide the learners. The Conceptual Content Management (C...