Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia articles from June 2005

Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia archives from June 2005

All or nothing: levels of sociability of a pedagogical software agent and its impact on student perceptions and learning.
June 22, 2005... This article reports the results of an experimental study on multimedia learning environments, which investigated the impact of increasing the social behaviors of a pedagogical agent on students' perceptions of social presence, their...

YADBrowser: a browser for web-based educational applications.
June 22, 2005... In this article, the main characteristics of the educational browser YADBrowser are described. One of the main objectives of this project is to define new languages and object models which facilitate the creation of educational applications for...

Multimedia in a science learning environment.
June 22, 2005... This article presents a review of the literature multimedia learning in science. It is no small matter that teachers value using technology, more specifically multimedia, in teaching. But this interest falls far short when it comes to...

Instructional media choice: factors affecting the preferences of distance education coordinators.
June 22, 2005... This article examines the impact of several variables on media choice among 51 distance education course coordinators at the Open University of Israel. Hypotheses were drawn from Media Richness Theory (Daft & Lengel, 1984), Social Influence...

Effectiveness of audio on screen captures in software application instruction.
June 22, 2005... Presentation of software instruction has been supported by manuals and textbooks consisting of screen captures, but a multimedia approach may increase learning outcomes. This study investigated the effects of modality (text, audio, or dual) on...