4.6. What We Don't Know About Contiguity
Overall, our goal is to reduce the need for learners to engage in extraneous processing by helping them see the connection between corresponding words and graphics. Two techniques we explored in this chapter are (1) to present printed words near the part of the graphic they refer to and (2) to present spoken text at the same time as the portion of graphic they refer to. Some unresolved issues concern:
Figure 4.11. Learning Is Better from Integrated Audio and Graphics Than from Separated Audio and Graphics.
How much detail should be in the graphics and in the words?
When it is better to use printed words ...
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