How temporal and spatial aspects of presenting visualizations affect learning about locomotion patterns

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 193-205

  Imhof, Birgit ^a   Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Edelmann, Jörg ^a   Gerjets, Peter ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic visualizations; Learning; Sequentiality of multiple static visualizations; Spatial layout of static simultaneous visualizations; Visuospatial abilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856569504     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2011.10.006     Document Type: Article

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