A cognitive approach to instructional design for multimedia learning

Informing Science

Volumn 8, Issue , 2005, Pages 263-279

  Sorden, Stephen D ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Act r; Cognitive load; Dual coding; Multimedia; Production system; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944496457     PISSN: 15214672     EISSN: 15214672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.28945/498     Document Type: Review

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