Educational animation: Who should call the shots?

Despite the increasing popularity of animation for explaining dynamic subject matter, research shows it is not uniformly beneficial for learning. User control has been suggested as a way to enhance learning by ameliorating negative effects of animation. However, giving learners the responsibility fo...

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Main Author: Lowe, Ric
Other Authors: L. Markauskaite
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Sydney University Press 2006
Online Access:http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney06/proceeding/pdf_papers/p140.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35426
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description Despite the increasing popularity of animation for explaining dynamic subject matter, research shows it is not uniformly beneficial for learning. User control has been suggested as a way to enhance learning by ameliorating negative effects of animation. However, giving learners the responsibility for controlling how an animation presents its information does not always produce the anticipated benefits. It appears that the associated interrogation tasks can over-tax learners’ internal processing resources so that extraction of relevant information is prejudiced. More prescriptive animation presentation regimes may be superior to free user control, particularly for learners who are novices in the depicted domain.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-354262023-02-27T07:34:29Z Educational animation: Who should call the shots? Lowe, Ric L. Markauskaite P. Goodyear P. Reimann Despite the increasing popularity of animation for explaining dynamic subject matter, research shows it is not uniformly beneficial for learning. User control has been suggested as a way to enhance learning by ameliorating negative effects of animation. However, giving learners the responsibility for controlling how an animation presents its information does not always produce the anticipated benefits. It appears that the associated interrogation tasks can over-tax learners’ internal processing resources so that extraction of relevant information is prejudiced. More prescriptive animation presentation regimes may be superior to free user control, particularly for learners who are novices in the depicted domain. 2006 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35426 http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney06/proceeding/pdf_papers/p140.pdf Sydney University Press restricted
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Educational animation: Who should call the shots?
title Educational animation: Who should call the shots?
title_full Educational animation: Who should call the shots?
title_fullStr Educational animation: Who should call the shots?
title_full_unstemmed Educational animation: Who should call the shots?
title_short Educational animation: Who should call the shots?
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url http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/sydney06/proceeding/pdf_papers/p140.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/35426