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Many students today are visual learners and little inclined to study printed materials or text-based online courses. Animations can serve as effective multimedia tools to engage these students while facilitating and enhancing the student learning experience by explaining difficult concepts through visual means instead of the traditional way of heavy textual based presentation. The importance of animations...
This paper looks at Mayer's theory on the redundancy principle and applies this theory on a computer science domain. This principle states that students learn better from animation and narration than from animation, narration, and text. The topic is on memory management in the subject of operating system concepts. In a series of two experimental studies, a total of 36 students took part in this experiment...
Learning emotion frequently generates variation in learning processes due to the affection of different learning materials or scenes. Many education scholars have pointed out that emotions are directly related to and affect learning performance. Few studies investigated the relationship between the learning emotion with learning materials owing to the difficulty of on-line assessing learning emotion...
A number of researches have explored the effect of embodied pedagogical agents in multimedia learning environments. Embodied pedagogical agents have been regarded as practical and powerful tools for instructions in these researches. However, it is hard to find a development kits that support the instructor or teacher to create interactive learning applications together with animated pedagogical agents...
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