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Kuhlmann, Shelbi; Fiorella, Logan – Educational Psychology, 2022
This study explored whether different types of instructional visuals--knowledge maps and pictorial illustrations--encourage students to focus on specific types of conceptual relationships during learning. Undergraduates (n = 134) studied a text lesson on the human nervous system accompanied by maps (text-with-maps group), illustrations…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Concept Mapping, Learning Processes
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Fiorella, Logan – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Explaining after pauses in a video lecture can be an effective learning activity, yet students need support to generate comprehensive explanations. This study tested whether providing students access to the visualizations from the video enhances explanation comprehensiveness and transfer performance. Undergraduates (n = 112) watched a 5-part…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Learning, Lecture Method, Video Technology
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Mayer, Richard E.; Fiorella, Logan; Stull, Andrew – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
This paper reviews five ways to increase the effectiveness of instructional video and one way not to use instructional video. People learn better from an instructional video when the onscreen instructor draws graphics on the board while lecturing (dynamic drawing principle), the onscreen instructor shifts eye gaze between the audience and the…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Technology Uses in Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Fiorella, Logan; Stull, Andrew T.; Kuhlmann, Shelbi; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
This study explored ways to foster generative learning during a narrated video lesson about the human kidney. In a 2 × 3 between-subjects design, 196 college students were randomly assigned to a video format condition and a learning strategy condition. Students listened to oral explanations from the instructor as they viewed either a series of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Teaching Methods, Human Body, Visual Aids
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Fiorella, Logan; Stull, Andrew T.; Kuhlmann, Shelbi; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
This study tested 3 instructor presence features in learning from video lectures: dynamic drawings, eye contact with the camera, and instructor visibility. In 2 experiments, college students watched a video lecture about the human kidney, which consisted of a series of drawings and a spoken explanation from the instructor, and then took a written…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Video Technology, Nonverbal Communication, Freehand Drawing
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Fiorella, Logan; Mayer, Richard E. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
In 4 experiments, participants viewed a short video-based lesson about how the Doppler effect works. Some students viewed already-drawn diagrams while listening to a concurrent oral explanation, whereas other students listened to the same explanation while viewing the instructor actually draw the diagrams by hand. All students then completed…
Descriptors: Multimedia Instruction, Multimedia Materials, Observational Learning, Freehand Drawing