The research identified and explored the cognitive knowledge among the instructional multimedia design and development experts comprising of multimedia designer, graphic designer, subject-matter expert and instructional designer. A critical need exists for a solid understanding of the factors that influence team decision making and performance in order to identify interventions that can affect ...

Background: One of the ways for effective communication between learners and instructional multimedia content in mobile learning systems is taking advantage of characters or pedagogical agents. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of the levels of realism in mobile-based pedagogical agents on health e-learning. Methods: The s...

This paper takes as its starting point Bernstein’s (2000) concepts of regulative and instructional discourses. Bernstein describes the role of instructional discourse to create ‘specialized skills and their relationship to each other’ and regulative discourse to create ‘order, relations and identity’ and manage ‘attitudes, dispositions and performances’. These concepts from the sociology of edu...