Attention guidance in learning from a complex animation: Seeing is understanding?

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 111-122

  de Koning, Björn B ^a   Tabbers, Huib K ^a   Rikers, Remy M J P ^a   Paas, Fred ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animations; Cognitive load; Cueing; Eye tracking; Verbal protocols; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

EID: 71749121026     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2009.02.010     Document Type: Article

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