New technologies allow the display of text, static visuals, and animations. Although
animations are inherently attractive, they are not always beneficial for learning. Problems …

Information about what visual elements in instructional animations enhance learning via
mediating effects of elevated engagement is largely lacking. In this study, high school …

This research examined whether the informational advantage of an animation over a static
picture (and over no visualizations as a control condition) can be compensated by …

Animated graphics are extensively used in multimedia instructions explaining how natural or
artificial dynamic systems work. As animation directly depicts spatial changes over time, it is …

Although the use of animated visuals is both common and popularamong CBI designers, the
theoretical and empirical foundations for their use have not been firmly established …

Animated graphics have been increasingly adopted to teach complex systems, encouraged
by the preconception that realism is effective. Nevertheless, the evidence has been …

Programming is one of the most complex subjects in computer science degrees. Program
visualization is one of the approaches adopted to make programming concepts more …

Humans have an evolved embodied cognition that equips them to deal easily with the
natural movements of object manipulations. Hence, learning a manipulative task is generally …

Realistic visualizations are abundantly used in digital education. However, the use of
realism is still thought to risk a cognitive overload due to excessive details. Moreover, it is …

Because drawing is a highly successful strategy in learning from text, it has recently been
investigated whether drawing can also improve learning from animation. Several theoretical …