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Gellevij, Mark; van der Meij, Hans; de Jong, Ton; Pieters, Jules – Journal of Experimental Education, 2002
Compared multimodal instruction with text and pictures with unimodal text-only instruction as 44 college students used a visual or textual manual to learn a complex software application. Results initially support dual coding theory and indicate that multimodal instruction led to better performance than unimodal instruction. (SLD)
Descriptors: College Students, Computer Software, Higher Education, Instructional Design

de Jong, Ton; van der Hulst, A. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2002
Describes a study of undergraduates that enhanced a hypertext environment with a graphical overview that represented the basic domain structure and designed the layout so learners were unobtrusively encouraged to follow a sequence of exploration that followed the domain structure. Results indicated that a visual display conveys knowledge in its…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Higher Education, Hypermedia