Fostering social agency in multimedia learning: Examining the impact of an animated agent’s voice
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People learn more deeply when the words in a multimedia message are spoken in a standard accented human voice rather than in a machine voice or foreign-accented human voice (voice principle).
“or when the words in a multimedia message are spoken in a standard accented human voice rather than in a machine voice or foreign-accented human voice (voice principle, e.g., Atkinson et al. 2005;Mayer et al. 2003).”
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- Authors
- Atkinson, R. K., Mayer, R. E., & Merrill, M. M.
- Affiliations
- Arizona State University (US)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Louisiana State University in Shreveport (US)
- Corresponding author
- Atkinson, Robert K.
- ORCID
- Mayer, Richard E.
- Venue
- Contemporary Educational Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-01
- Volume
- 30
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 117-139
- ISSN
- 0361-476X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2164725482
- Semantic Scholar
- fa56a969b9fe56d1bd494611ecc2c6d8586549dd
- Cited by
- 388
- References
- 28
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.69
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Contemporary Educational Psychology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Visual and Cognitive Learning Processes
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Adaptive Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Keywords
- animated agents, worked examples, proportional reasoning, transfer of learning, high school students
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