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Demonstrating dynamics to support learning from complex animations

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International audience; This round table will explore the potential of learner demonstrations to be a more effective alternative support strategy than self-generated drawing for improving learning from complex animations. Discussion will be stimulated by three presentations reporting recent work of the EARLI Center for Innovative Research ‘Drawing for Learning from Animation’ and key focus questions arising from that research. The presentations will cover the processing challenges posed to learners by requiring them to self-generated drawings from complex animations, how these challenges may be ameliorated by instead having learners perform demonstrations with manipulable models, and empirical investigations of the effectiveness of such demonstrations with respect to two different types of subject matter. Key themes for this round table are the central importance of extracting dynamic information to successful processing of animations and how learner demonstrations relate to the Animation Processing Model (Lowe & Boucheix, 2008).