Effects of Segmenting, Signaling, and Weeding on Learning from Educational Video

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2012

Department

Teaching & Educational Leadership

Abstract

Informed by the cognitive theory of multimedia learning, this study examined the effects of three multimedia design principles on undergraduate students' learning outcomes and perceived learning difficulty in the context of learning entomology from an educational video. These principles included segmenting the video into smaller units, signalling to direct students' attention to relevant information, and weeding to remove any non-essential content (SSW). It was hypothesized that the SSW treatment would decrease perceived learning difficulty and facilitate the transfer of knowledge and the structural knowledge acquisition. Results of the study demonstrate that participants in the SSW group outperformed the non-SSW group on the tests of knowledge transfer and structural knowledge acquisition and reported lower levels of learning difficulty. These findings support the use of SSW to help novice learners organize and integrate knowledge from complex, dynamic audio-visual media like video.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2011.585993

First Page

220

Last Page

235

Publication Title

Learning, Media, and Technology

Comments

Published online 28 June 2011

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