Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Derek Alexander Muller School of Physics University of Sydney Australia 2008
Dedicated to all the great teachers who instilled in me the joy of learning, my parents, sisters, and especially Jane.
Declaration of originality To the best of my knowledge, this thesis contains no copy or paraphrase of work published by another person, except where duly acknowledged in the text.This thesis contains no material which has been previously presented for a degree at the University of Sydney or any other university. Derek Alexander Muller ii
Included papers and attribution The following refereed papers and presentations arose from work related to this thesis. Chapter 1 The future of multimedia learning: Essential issues for re- search D.A. Muller, J. Eklund, & M.D. Sharma Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education, Sydney, 2005. Chapter 4 Determining the factors affecting student perceptions of a popular science video D.A. Muller & M.D. Sharma Published in theAustralasian Journal of Educational Technol- ogy, 21(4), 2005, pp.491–509. Video physics education: Falling cats and terminal velocity D.A. Muller & M.D. Sharma Paper presented at The Australian Institute of Physics, Can- berra, 2005. Chapter 5 Inside the quantum mechanics lecture: Changing practices D.A. Muller Paper presented at The Higher Education Research and Devel- opment Society of Australasia, Sydney, 2005. iii
Chapter 6 Student conceptions of quantum tunneling D.A. Muller and M.D. Sharma Paper presented at the International Conference on Physics Ed- ucation, New Delhi, 2005. Chapter 8 Conceptual change through vicarious learning in an au- thentic physics setting D.A. Muller, M.D. Sharma, J. Eklund, & P. Reimann Published inInstructional Science, 35(6), 2007, pp.519–533. Starting a dialogue: The potential of vicarious learning D.A. Muller, M.D. Sharma, P. Reimann, & J. Eklund Presented at The American Association of Physics Teachers, Anchorage, 2006. Chapter 9 Changing conceptions in E-learning:Debates and dia- logues D.A. Muller & J. Eklund Paper presented at The World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education, Honolulu, 2006. Saying the wrong thing: Improving learning with multime- dia by including misconceptions D.A. Muller, J. Bewes, M.D. Sharma, & P. Reimann Published in theJournal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2007. Chapter 10 Improving multimedia with alternative conceptions D.A. Muller & J. Eklund Paper presented at The International Conference on Informa- tion Communication Technologies in Education, Crete, 2007. Raising cognitive load with linear multimedia to promote conceptual change D.A. Muller, M.D. Sharma, & P. Reimann Published inScience Education, 2007.
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