Examining learning from text and pictures for different task types: Does the multimedia effect differ for conceptual, causal, and procedural tasks?

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2209-2218

  Van Genuchten, Erlijn ^a   Scheiter, Katharina ^a   Schüler, Anne ^a  

^a KNOWLEDGE MEDIA RESEARCH CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conceptual, causal and procedural tasks; Learning with text and pictures; Multimedia effect; Static visualisations

Indexed keywords

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; CONCEPTUAL, CAUSAL AND PROCEDURAL TASKS; IN-LINE; INFORMATION SOURCES; LEARNING WITH TEXT AND PICTURES; MENTAL REPRESENTATIONS; MULTIMEDIA EFFECT; PROCESS-ORIENTED; STATIC VISUALISATIONS; TASK TYPE;

DATA PROCESSING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 84865624165     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.06.028     Document Type: Article

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