Exploring the relation between visualizer-verbalizer cognitive styles and performance with visual or verbal learning material

Computers and Education

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 697-706

  Kollöffel, Bas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Human computer interface; Interactive learning environments; Media in education; Multimedia hypermedia systems; Simulations

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERFACES; INTERACTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MEDIA IN EDUCATION; MULTIMEDIA/HYPERMEDIA SYSTEMS; SIMULATIONS;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATERIALS; SPEECH; STUDENTS; VISUALIZATION;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 82755189839     PISSN: 03601315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compedu.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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