Avoiding Simplicity, Confronting Complexity

Advances in Studying and Designing (Computer-Based) Powerful Learning Environments

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Researchers from all over the world are fascinated by the question on how to design powerful learning environments and how to effectively integrate computers in instruction. Members of the special interest groups 'Instructional Design' and 'Learning and Instruction with Computers’ of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction belong to this group of fascinated researchers. By presenting their research on these questions in this book, these researchers provide empirically based answers, finetune previously suggested solutions, and raise new questions and research paths. The contributions each try to deal with the actual complexity of learning environments, while avoiding naïve simplicity. The book presents an up-to-date overview of current research by experienced researchers from well-known research centers. This book is intended for an audience of educational researchers, instructional designers, and all those fascinated by questions with respect to the design of learning environments and the use of technology.

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Not knowing what we don't know
Reframing the inlportance of automated knowledge for educational research
Pages: 1–14
From learning to instruction
Adventures and advances in instructional design
Pages: 15–26
The integration of information-problem solving instruction in an educational program
Effects on students' task approach and task performance
Pages: 77–86
Designing cognitive tools for teaching
A knowledge-based model
Pages: 97–106
Pygmalion in media-based learning
How quality information about an instructional medium impacts on achievement
Pages: 137–144
Learning from heuristic examples
An approach to foster the acquisition of heuristic skill in mathematics
Pages: 145–154
Do multimedia principles apply to hypermedia?
The moderating role of different levels of learner control for the validity of multimedia design principles
Pages: 243–252
Handling complexity in multimedia learning
Effects of control and collaboration when studying animation
Pages: 275–284
The acquisition of problem schemata
Limitations of multiple examples
Pages: 297–306
Learning culture and vocabulary from reading texts
Does task instruction make a difference?
Pages: 319–328
Enhancing troubleshooting transfer performance
Effects of product-oriented versus process-oriented worked examples
Pages: 349–357
Learning with hyperaudio
Cognitive load and knowledge acquisition in non-linear auditory instruction
Pages: 369–377
Do people prefer the opposite sex?
Characteristics of pedagogical agents
Pages: 397–402
Extending the complexity of powerful learning environments
Acknowledging the role of emotions in classroom learning
Pages: 415–420
Analysis of individual learning sequences
An Alternative Methodological Approach
Pages: 433–439
Educational Researchers and their students
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