The potential benefits of technology for education have frequently been technology driven,. No more so than with the current developments in multimedia which integrated text, graphics, video and audio to provide a comprehensive representation of a content domain on a single display monitor. In this environment, developers are producing applications which reflect significant changes in the way i...

The trend towards using multimedia and visual tools in learning environments as the preferred basis for teaching has increased dramatically over recent years. This paper will report on current research trends investigating the development of visually enhanced course materials. Specifically, it will analyse relevant instructional design issues and reflect on the concepts involved in catering for...

The multimedia principle states that adding graphics to text can improve student learning (Mayer, 2009), but all graphics are not equally effective. In the present study, students studied a short online lesson on distance education that contained instructive graphics (i.e., directly relevant to the instructional goal), seductive graphics (i.e., highly interesting but not directly relevant to th...

HIGHLIGHTSThis interview study explores beliefs about the instructional role of illustrationsWe compared illustrators', teachers', students' and common people's ideasParticipants' responses were internally coherent and close to multimedia learning theoryWe propose and discuss an integrated multimedia learning model An interview study, based on specific pictures taken from textbooks used in prim...

Instructional planning is an essential professional activity often used by teachers. However, some characteristics of existing university-based teacher education programs may hamper pre-service teachers’ learning of instructional planning. Thus, this study adopts the cognitive apprenticeship as a theoretical foundation to construct a web-based learning model that integrates expert teachers and ...

As eLearning is becoming more readily available and accessible in formal and informal contexts, more education institutions, including schools, are developing courses virtually. Educators are gradually incorporating elements of eLearning in the discussions on integrating pedagogy and instructional design. Such integration is increasingly important in mathematics as the subject involves thinking...

This report presents current learning theories that relate to multimedia use. It is important to understand how these learning theories apply to the instructional environment that faculty find themselves teaching in today's classroom. Textual information is often presented concurrently with visual information, but the way they are presented can improve or hinder the learning process of novice s...

The aim of this research was to compare the effectiveness of hierarchical sequencing (HS) versus elaboration sequencing (ES) models in improving educational outcome of clinical knowledge when using instructional multimedia programs in postgraduate orthodontic training. Twenty-four postgraduate and 24 undergraduate dental students participated in this study. The postgraduates were following an o...

Workflow services can support learning with multimedia objects in eLearning environments. to the innovation of our approach is to embed intra multimedia object navigation into the workflow. As a result, it is possible to define an overall learning workflow based on interpretation and interactions of learners and tutors with multimedia objects. A learning process can now be defined as a flow of ...

Multimedia pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that allow users to navigate or learn in multimedia environments. Several agents’ characteristics may moderate their instructional effectiveness, including appearance, gender, nonverbal communication, motion, and voice. Here, we conducted a meta-analysis test hypotheses from diverse theories predicting the effects of these characteristics. ...