Effect of animation in enhancing descriptive and procedural texts in a multimedia learning environment

Journal of the American Society for Information Science

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 437-448

  Large, Andrew ^a   Beheshti, Jamshid ^a   Breuleux, Alain ^a   Renaud, Andre ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; TEACHING; TECHNICAL WRITING;

CLOSE SEMANTIC LINKS; DESCRIPTIVE TEXT; MULTIMEDIA LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; PROCEDURAL TEXTS; SPATIAL ABILITY; STILL IMAGE; TEXT COMPREHENSION;

ANIMATION;

EID: 0030167558     PISSN: 00028231     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199606)47:6<437::AID-ASI4>3.0.CO;2-W     Document Type: Article

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