Demonstration as an aid to learning from animation

Richard K Lowe (1) , Jean-Michel Boucheix (2)

1 Curtin University
2 LEAD - Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement [Dijon]

The effectiveness of requiring learners to generate operational demonstrations while viewing an animation of a working mechanism was explored as a means of improving their animation processing. We assumed that the demonstration requirement would enhance learner extraction of key dynamic information needed for building a high quality mental model. It is expected that compared with note-taking controls, those in the demonstration group will give more attention to the spatiotemporal relationships amongst the mechanism’s components. This would result in these participants exhibiting superior scores on a test of mental model quality were attributed to the effect on their animation processing of having to ‘act-out’ of the mechanism’s dynamics.

Mots clés: E-learning; Online learning; Experimental studies; Informal learning; Instructional design; Multimedia learning; Self-efficacy; Demonstration as an aid to learning from animation

Domaines: Psychologie

Richard K Lowe, Jean-Michel Boucheix. Demonstration as an aid to learning from animation. 17th Biennial conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (EARLI), European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Aug 2017, Tampere, Finland. ⟨hal-01678579⟩