Multimedia Learning Environments: Issues of Learner Control and Navigation.

Lawless, Kimberly A.; Brown, Scott W.

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ERIC Number: EJ546246

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1997

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Multimedia Learning Environments: Issues of Learner Control and Navigation.

Lawless, Kimberly A.; Brown, Scott W.

Instructional Science, v25 n2 p117-31 Mar 1997

Examines how different internal learner characteristics (prior knowledge, self efficacy, and interest) and different external constraints (learner control, instructional design, and level of control) influence the learning process. Discusses learning from multimedia environments (video, hypertext, kiosk, and other hypermedia) within a schema theory framework incorporating a constructivist view. (74 references) (PEN)

Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Educational Environment, Instructional Design, Interests, Learner Controlled Instruction, Learning Processes, Multimedia Instruction, Navigation (Information Systems), Prior Learning, Schemata (Cognition), Self Efficacy, Videotape Recordings

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: Multimedia and Interactivity.