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Download full textZeidler, Dana Lewis; McIntosh, William J. – 1989
Contemporary researchers often refer to the information processing paradigm to exlain the relative ineffectiveness of contemporary instructional techniques for modifying incorrect scientific concepts that students often bring to a learning situation. As a result of this research, instructional procedures have been developed that maximize the…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Science, Interactive Video, Misconceptions
Bates, A. W. – 1985
The presentational power of television gives it unique teaching characteristics and it is a source of a wide variety of learning material that would be unavailable to learners in any other way. For instance, it can be used to: (1) demonstrate experiments or experimental situations; (2) explain principles involving movement over space and/or time;…
Descriptors: Broadcast Television, Cable Television, Cognitive Processes, Communications Satellites
Hannafin, Michael J.; And Others – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1986
This study examined effects of orienting activities, processing opportunity, and varied lesson access times on college students' learning from interactive video. While practice remains dominant influence in effectiveness of interactive video, significant interactions were also found among access times, processing opportunity, and practice, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Processes, Higher Education
Council for Exceptional Children, Reston, VA. Center for Special Education Technology. – 1991
This annotated bibliography was developed as a result of a May, 1991, Technology Seminar on Multimedia, and is intended to provide researchers with an overview of the literature pertaining to the development of multimedia technology, innovative applications, design, and implementation issues as well as with descriptions of major multimedia…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Processes, Computer Oriented Programs, Cultural Influences
Peer reviewedSimonson, Michael R., Ed.; Zvacek, Susan M., Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 1987
Current issues in educational communications and technology are addressed in this collection of 51 papers, which are mainly research reports. The first five papers were prepared for a symposium on the status of research in instructional technology, an introduction and four discussions of divergent points of view in the current controversy over the…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Computer Assisted Instruction
Rieber, Lloyd P.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1987
A study was carried out at Pennsylvania State University to examine the effects of both textual and computer animated orienting activities--i.e., mediators through which new information is presented to the learner--and practice on the application and problem solving skills of elementary school students. It was hypothesized that students provided…
Descriptors: Advance Organizers, Animation, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction
Gagnon, Diana – 1986
A series of studies are underway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Audience Research Facility to examine the impact of interactivity on informational and entertainment based television viewing. In order to examine the learning of spatial skills from videogames, the first study compared the learning of spatial content from interactive…
Descriptors: Aptitude Treatment Interaction, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Commercial Television
