For a long time, research on individuals learning in digital environments was primarily based
on cognitive-oriented theories. This paper aims at providing evidence that social processes …

This paper reviews 12 research‐based principles for how to design computer‐based
multimedia instructional materials to promote academic learning, starting with the …

Social cues may prime social responses in learners that lead to deeper cognitive processing
during learning and hence better test performance. The personalization principle is that …

Improve the quality of your eLearning materials with evidence-based guidelines e-Learning
and the Science of Instruction, 5th Edition: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers …

Cognitive load is a theoretical notion with an increasingly central role in the educational
research literature. The basic idea of cognitive load theory is that cognitive capacity in …

Research on the use of software programs and tools such as pedagogical agents has
peaked over the last decade. Pedagogical agents are on-screen characters that facilitate …

We conducted a meta-analysis of 33 independent samples (N= 2924) to address whether
adding anthropomorphic faces to multimedia graphics and/or adding pleasant colors are …

This paper examines the transferability of successful cueing approaches from text and static
visualization research to animations. Theories of visual attention and learning as well as …

Pedagogical agents, characters that guide through multimedia learning environments,
recently gained increasing interest. A review was published by Clarebout, Elen, Johnson …

The emergence of large-language models (LLMs) that excel at code generation and
commercial products such as GitHub's Copilot has sparked interest in human-AI pair …