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Yang, Wenjing; Dietrich, Arne; Liu, Peiduo; Ming, Dan; Jin, Yule; Nusbaum, Howard C.; Qiu, Jiang; Zhang, Qinglin – Creativity Research Journal, 2016
Evidence from a range of fields indicates that inventions are often inspired by drawing a parallel to solutions found in nature. However, the cognitive mechanism of this process is not well understood. The cognitive mechanism of heuristic prototype in scientific innovation was tested with 3 experiments. First, 84 historical accounts of important…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students, Foreign Countries
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Wang, Zhe; Adesope, Olusola – Educational Technology & Society, 2017
Research on the seductive details effect on reading expository texts in multimedia learning environments has grown over the past few decades. However, less is known when seductive details are encountered in learning through worked-examples to solve problems. Thus, it is necessary to examine the seductive details effect when solving problems in a…
Descriptors: Attention, Recall (Psychology), Cognitive Processes, Prompting
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Chen, Min; Yu, Sheng Quan; Chiang, Feng Kuang – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
Most ubiquitous learning researchers use resource recommendation and retrieving based on context to provide contextualized learning resources, but it is the kind of one-way context matching. Learners always obtain fixed digital learning resources, which present all learning contents in any context. This study proposed a dynamic ubiquitous learning…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Educational Technology, Instructional Materials, Models