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Research suggests that that the educational value of a media format depends upon the ways in which its representational affordances interact with complex features of the learning environment, including learner characteristics, content domains,...

Recent literature on technology integration in teacher preparation describes and recommends particular program content and practices. We have learned that teacher educators need to model effective uses of technology throughout a teacher preparation...

In this paper, we describe a video- and case-based software designed to help pre-service teachers become skilled teachers of literacy, and how this software was used in one pre-service education course. We present the results of one evaluation study ...

Cognitive research has indicated a difference between how individuals process visual and verbal information. The question is whether or not these differences result in a preference and if it affects learning? This paper explores how individuals...

Abstract: In this investigation we assessed whether different formats of media influenced participants' engagement and recall of narrative cases of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. For each of the personal case-narratives used in the study, we...

In this study, we examine the constraints, affordances, motivation and understanding that occur within a multimedia-learning environment. As part of their biology courses, fifty-seven university students from the U.S. and Africa viewed video cases...