Learning with hypermedia: The influence of representational formats and different levels of learner control on performance and learning behavior

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 360-370

  Gerjets, Peter ^a   Scheiter, Katharina ^b   Opfermann, Maria ^d   Hesse, Friedrich W ^a   Eysink, Tessa H S ^c  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypermedia learning; Learner control; Multimedia design principles

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; PROGRAMMING THEORY;

HYPERMEDIA ENVIRONMENTS; HYPERMEDIA LEARNING; LEARNER CONTROL; LEARNING BEHAVIORS; LEARNING OBJECTIVES; LEARNING TIME; LOW LEVELS; MULTIMEDIA DESIGN PRINCIPLES; PRIOR KNOWLEDGE; PROBABILITY THEORIES; TIME CONSTRAINTS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 59049107418     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.12.015     Document Type: Article

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