Generative learning involves actively making sense of to-be-learned information by mentally
reorganizing and integrating it with one's prior knowledge, thereby enabling learners to …

Students can generate teaching materials for others. However, solid evidence of the
learning effect for the student creating the material is needed. This meta-analysis aims to …

Teaching the contents of study materials by providing explanations to fellow students can be
a beneficial instructional activity. A learning-by-teaching effect can also occur when students …

This study tested whether creating drawings helps students generate higher-quality oral
explanations during learning by teaching, thereby enhancing learning outcomes. 120 …

Research has demonstrated that oral explaining to a fictitious student improves learning.
Whether these findings replicate, when students are writing explanations, and whether …

The present study tests whether presenting video modeling examples from the learner's (first-
person) perspective promotes learning of an assembly task, compared to presenting video …

Research is needed to understand how to best design video lectures that foster learning. We
tested whether instructor presence is better afforded through methods that increase students' …

Recent findings show that after studying a text, teaching the learned content on video to a
fictitious peer student improves learning more than restudying the content. This benefit may …

Two experiments investigated whether studying a text with an “explanation intention” and
then actually explaining it to (fictitious) other students in writing, would yield the same …

Meaningful learning involves actively making sense of the learning material by organizing
and integrating it with one's relevant existing knowledge. In short, learning is a generative …