Not the silver bullet: Learner-generated drawings make it difficult to understand broader spatiotemporal structures in complex animations

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 47, Issue , 2017, Pages 13-24

  Ploetzner, Rolf ^a   Fillisch, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Learner generated drawings; Learning from animation; Learning strategies; Reflection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992533186     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2016.10.002     Document Type: Article

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