Observational learning from animated models: Effects of modality and reflection on transfer

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Wouters, Pieter ^a   Paas, Fred ^b,c   van Merriënboer, Jeroen J G ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animations; Cognitive load theory; Cognitive modeling; Modality; Reflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349102138     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2008.03.001     Document Type: Article

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