Title
A Research of Applying Cognitive Load Theory to Science Education Webpage
Abstract
This study employed three units, “Air and Combustion”, “Heat Effects toward Substances”, and “Healthy Diet”, from the Science Education Website set by the Ministry of Education (Tainan) to assist students' learning. This multifunctional website offers teaching resources, interesting experiments, inquiry experiments, virtual animations, multi-assessments, and supplementary materials, which are highly interactive and simulative. Cognitive Load Theory was adopted in this study to investigate the influences on learning achievement under distinct multimedia combinations and learner-controlled modes. The subjects in this study were six classes of fifth graders (n = 192). Our findings were: (1) Learner-controlled modes were significantly influential. (2) Multimedia combination forms brought apparent influences on learning effects. We spied that the “animation + narration” group performed evidently better than the “animation + subtitles” group. This shows that inappropriate AV combinations may interfere with learning; more functions and information inputs don't guarantee better learning effects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICALT.2012.30
ICALT
Keywords
Field
DocType
teaching resources,ministry of education,multifunctional web site,multimedia combinations,multimedia computing,learning effects,science education web page,cognitive load,inappropriate av combination,learning (artificial intelligence),healthy diet,animation + narration group,computer animation,tainan,air and combustion,learner-controlled modules,multiassessments,virtual animation,students learning,virtual animations,psychology,heat effects toward substances,distinct multimedia combination,biomedical education,web sites,cognitive load theory,heat effects,learner-controlled modes,distance learning,apparent influence,learning effect,supplementary materials,learner-controlled mode,science education website,physics education,multimedia combination form,av combinations,computer aided instruction,animation + subtitles group,multi-media combination modules,science education webpage,animation,combustion,visualization,learning artificial intelligence
Learning effect,Web page,Visualization,Computer science,Distance education,Physics education,Animation,Cognitive load,Multimedia,Science education
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1642-2
1
0.39
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chia-Ju Liu152.20
Yuan-cheng Lin2302.83
Baoyuan Liu31325.64
Yu-Yi Chang410.39