Week 8 - Personalization Principle

Question 1

What question does the personalization principle answer?

Answer 1

Whats better for learning? Formal or conversational?

Question 2

Explain discourse processing (principle 1). How & why does it work?

Answer 2

shows that people work harder towards understanding a concept when they feel like they are in a conversation.
Social cues -> activation of social response -> increase in cognitive processing -> increasing in learning outcome.

Question 3

What is a pedagogical agent? And how are they beneficial to learning?

Answer 3

Life like characters that are used as guides through multimedia learning environments. They are beneficial because they incorporate an audio style conversation that is conducive to learning.

Question 4

What does showing the author do to a learner?

Answer 4

Increases motivation