Multimedia, Multitasking, and Content Type and their Impact on College Students’ Perceived Mental Effort

Jeanette Andrade; Dawn Bohn; Wenhao David Huang

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2014 (Oct 20, 2014) pp. 97–102

An experimental study was conducted in a compulsory introductory food science and human nutrition course at a mid-western University with undergraduate students to determine the relationship between multimedia and content types on perceived mental...

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Multimedia's Effect on College Students' Quantitative Mental Effort Scores and Qualitative Extraneous Cognitive Load Responses in a Food Science and Human Nutrition Course

Jeanette Andrade; Wen-Hao David Huang; Dawn M. Bohn

Journal of Food Science Education Vol. 13, No. 3 (July 2014) pp. 40–46

Effective use of multimedia (MM) in instructional design is critical for student learning, especially for large lecture introductory courses. This study used a mixed-method approach to explore the effect of food science supporting course materials...