Moreno & Mayer :
- Forgive me, but:
- "It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
- A.N.Whitehead (1861-1947) British Philosopher
- I guess it is important that these people took the time to measure this and we now have verification of what we knew intuitively. People are designed to take input from all of our senses simultaneously. We can see, hear, smell, and feel : if all of the "inputs" are on the same "topic" then they will combine to create a richer and fuller experience, whether it be for learning, or at the T2 experience, or the Waterworld show at Universal Studios. Perhaps this is one of the reasons I am so enthused about the prospect of immersive environments for learning. We remember experiences much better than things we have just read.
- Interestingly, right on the first page, they mention that "students who read a booklet explaining how tire pumps work that included captioned illustrations placed near the text generated 75% more useful solutions on problem-solving transfer questions than did students who read the same text and illustrations presented on separate pages. Our other authors, (M,S,&B) do exactly that throughout their text. They keep the images separate from the text.
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| Misanchuk, Schwier & Boling
I can certainly speak from experience about how time consuming it is to create an animation. I have one that took me the better part of two days to create, and 5 minutes to show. On the other hand, I am convinced (with some positive feedback from the students) that those were 5 minutes well spent. If the format is accessible enough, there is also the possibility of allowing students to run through it as often as they wish on their own time. I find that this is one very worthwhile applications of animation. We can run through it at full speed in class, and then the student can do a "re-play" later. If what we are trying to explain is dynamic in nature, this works better than simply giving students notes that they can reread.
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EDER 679.12
Computer Based Learning II