Cognitive and socio-motivational aspects in learning with animations: There is more to it than 'do they aid learning or not'

Instructional Science

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 435-440

  Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Gerjets, Peter ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animation; Dynamic visualization; Instructional effectiveness; Moderators

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955432568     PISSN: 00204277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11251-009-9118-5     Document Type: Article

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