Online learning: Audio or text?

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 555-573

  de Oliveira Neto, Jose Dutra ^a   Huang, Wenhao David ^b   de Azevedo Melli, Nádia Cristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c Department of Production Engineering ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Modality principle; Online technical education; Self paced multimedia learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937979168     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-015-9392-7     Document Type: Article

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