Maik Beege

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis includes 103 studies and N = 12,201 participants to determine separate mean effect sizes for retention and transfer performance measures, and the results support the positive effect of signaling on motivation/affect, learning time, and learning-relevant fixations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the mediational influences of learners' perceived autonomy and intrinsic motivation on choice effects and the moderating influence of the relevance of choice options and found that both retention and transfer performance (learning scores) were enhanced by choice options.

TL;DR: The segmenting effect states that people learn better when multimedia instructions are presented in (meaningful and coherent) learner-paced segments, rather than as continuous units as mentioned in this paper, which is confirmed for a system-paced segmentation.

TL;DR: This paper investigated the influence of addressing (as a social encounter of parasocial interaction ) on learning performance in an educational video and found that parasocial interactions might lead to deeper cognitive processing and affective states which are beneficial for learning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effects of anthropomorphic features when included in decorative pictures in multimedia learning materials and found that both human faces and anthropomorphic labels were able to increase the learning performance on cognitive assessments.