Middle School Students as Multimedia Designers: A Look at Their Cognitive Skills Development

Min Liu; Yu-ping Hsiao

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2001 (2001) pp. 1139–1144

In this research, we examined the impact of a cognitive apprenticeship-style learner-as-multimedia-designer environment on middle school students' cognitive skills development. The findings showed that engaging students as designers could increase...

Topics: Schools, Students, Middle School Education, Cognition, Multimedia

Middle School Students as Multimedia Designers: A Project-Based Learning Approach

Min Liu; Yu-Ping Hsiao

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 13, No. 4 (2002) pp. 311–337

Engaging students as multimedia designers extends multimedia authoring by placing students in a designer's position. Instead of merely learning the technical skills and creating a project, the designers need to consider such issues as the needs of...

Topics: Middle School Education, Students, Cognition, Schools, Multimedia

The impact of animation interactivity on novices’ learning of introductory statistics

Pei-Yu Wang; Brandon K. Vaughn; Min Liu

Computers & Education Vol. 56, No. 1 (January 2011) pp. 300–311

This study examined the impact of animation interactivity on novices’ learning of introductory statistics. The interactive animation program used in this study was created with Adobe Flash following Mayer’s multimedia design principles as well as...

An Exploration of Mashups and Their Potential Educational Uses

Min Liu; Lucas Horton; Justin Olmanson; Pei-Yu Wang

Computers in the Schools Vol. 25, No. 3 (October 2008) pp. 243–258

A Web mashup is an application that combines data and functionality from more than one source. By bringing disparate data together in ways that enable users to do new things or accomplish common tasks with newfound efficiency, mashups are rapidly...