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Designing contrasting video case activities to facilitate learning of complex subject matter
Brian D. Beitzel
(2004) pp. 1–125
Schwartz and Bransford (1998) developed a knowledge-differentiation hypothesis to explain why a contrasting-cases activity prepares students to learn from a lecture or text. This experiment examined three alternative theories about cognitive...
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When the Book Is Better than the Movie: How Contrasting Video Cases Influence Text Learning
Brian D. Beitzel; Sharon J. Derry
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 40, No. 3 (2009) pp. 337–355
Video usage in educational contexts is on the rise. We examined 3 alternative theories about cognitive mechanisms of learning and their implications for instructional design when video is employed to enhance text-based learning. Hypothesis-testing...
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Cognitive Transfer Revisited: Can We Exploit New Media to Solve Old Problems on a Large Scale?
Sharon J. Derry; Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver; Anandi Nagarajan; Ellina Chernobilsky; Brian D. Beitzel
Journal of Educational Computing Research Vol. 35, No. 2 (2006) pp. 145–162
The work we report in this special issue attempted to exploit the power of technology and cognitive theory to help make conceptual systems taught in large college courses truly useful in students' future lives. Facing evidence that traditional...