W3 - Technology affordances and multimedia learning effects

1. The statement that "Students learn better from graphics and narration than from graphics and printed text" is based on ... (Low & Sweller, 2014).

• A. modality principle.

• B. multimedia principle.

• C. split-attention principle.

• D. signaling principle.

2. The statement that "Students learn more effectively from words and pictures than from words alone" is based on ... (Butcher, 2014; Fletcher & Tobias, 2005).

• A. modality principle.

• B. multimedia principle.

• C. split-attention principle.

• D. signaling principle.

3. Which of the following is NOT the assumptions underpinning multimedia learning?

• A. Limited capacity assumption

• B. Active processing

• C. Channeling assumption

• D. Dual-channel assumption

4. When classifying affordances of learning technologies, Bower (2008) presents a categorization framework that includes the following types of affordances:

• A. media - social - temporal - navigational - emphasis - synthesis - access control

• B. media - social - educational - navigational - emphasis - synthesis - access control

• C. media - spatial- temporal- organizational- emphasis- synthesis - access control

• D. media - spatial - temporal - navigational - emphasis - synthesis - access control

5. Temporal affordances include ... (Bower, 2008). (You can choose more than one answer)

• A. Accessibility

• B. view-ability

• C. integrate-ability

• D. record-ability

• E. focus-ability

6. Emphasis affordances include ... (Bower, 2008).

• A. highlight-ability

• B. focus-ability

• C. draw-ability

• D. resize-ability

• E. playback-ability

7. Which of the following is NOT a type of media affordances? (Bower, 2008) 

• A. read-ability

• B. view-ability

• C. listen-ability

• D. playback-ability

8. The belief that "students learn better when verbal material is presented in a conversational style than when it is presented using a formal style" (Mayer, 2014d) originates from which principle? 

• A. Signaling principle

• B. Split-attention principle

• C. Personalization principle

• D. Redundancy principle

9. Which of the following is NOT included in navigational affordances? (Bower, 2008) 

• A. browse-ability

• B. playback-ability

• C. link-ability

• D. search-ability

10. Social affordances are defined as characteristics of an educational resource that indicate if and how a particular learning behavior could possibly be enacted within the context. According to Kirschner et al. (2004), is the above definition TRUE or FALSE?

• A. TRUE

• B. FALSE