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IPT 564 Readings on Multimedia and Time on Task

By Jared Stein | Published: July 7, 2010
This is a short post on this week’s readings. Mayer, Richard. (1997). Multimedia learning: Are we asking the right questions? Educational Psychologist 31(1), 1-19. Today we may take multimedia learning for granted, as the advent of more powerful hardware and software has facilitated the production of multimedia by non-programmers, and the Web has made available [...]
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IPT 564 Readings on Spacing Effect

By Jared Stein | Published: July 7, 2010
Notes on assigned readings on spacing effect: Dempster, The Spacing Effect and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitner_system Dempster’s article addresses possible issues that may have restricted or inhibited the classroom application of research on the spacing effect. The Leitner System describes a method of spaced repetition in flashcard practice that has been adopted by many flashcard software. In it’s [...]
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IPT 564 Readings on Memory and Forgetting

By Jared Stein | Published: July 7, 2010
I had to catch up and post something on this week’s readings on memory and forgetting, though I had read all or part of the following previously. Ebbinghaus (1885) Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology Ebbinghaus’s book-length treatment of the subject is surely included here because it is a groundbreaking work, a classic often referred [...]
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