Coherence or interest: Which is most important in online multimedia learning? - The Diigo Meta page

• 01 May 08
  

  Shanta Rohse

  Does interesting but extra information provide a useful function? The coherence principle says no

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• 15 Apr 08
  

  Christy Tucker

  A challenge to the coherence principle: the idea that all information in multimedia learning should be essential, and nothing should be added simply for interest. This research found that in an authentic learning setting that performance was the same whether learners had only the essentials or had additional interesting information, directly contradicting Clark & Mayer's work.

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