Volitional Aspects of Multimedia LearningDeiman & Keller

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Attempt to solve the problem of decreased motivation in current cogtive approaches to multiemedia learning design.

ACTION CONTROL THEORY

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developed by German psychologist JuliusKuhl (1984)comprehensive framework based on an information-processing perspectiveincluding motivation, emotion, cognition, and volition.

Selective Attention

Encoding control

Emotion control

Motivation control

Environment control

Parsimonious information processing

Self-regulated learning

Multimedia problems

Serendipity effect

Embedded degression problem - lost path

Animated picture or link of interst that shifts your attention

Lost in cyberspace

Cognitvie overload

Intrinsic cog. load

Germane CL

Extrinsic

Navigational patterns

Model users

Dischanted users

Feature explorers

Cybercartographers

Seductive details

What is volition?

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capacity to keep oneself focused and goal-oriented despite distractions such as decreases in motivation or competing goals

New concepts

animated pedagogy

Prompting