Overall, adding animations to text as well as using spoken rather than written text improved only immediate recall; in addition, a multimedia effect for delayed recall was observed for learners with higher levels of scientific literacy.
Last we heard, the Android team was also crackin' away at a whole new copy-and-paste system (moving beyond just copy and pasting text), improved social networking integration, and playback support for Google's WebM video format.
Scholars' ability to reassemble the texts improved massively.
Representations can enhance learning from texts, improve problem solving, and facilitate connections between new knowledge and prior knowledge (Cook 2006).
Moreover, interoperable BIM tools allow the semi-automatic review of design compliance against normative texts, improving accuracy and reliability of the validation process.
In an EFL context, Emilia and Hamied (2015) reported that a genre-based teaching in an Indonesian university, which focused on the teaching of exposition texts improved learners' writing ability.
In a previous phase of our project, we documented that having access to a smartphone library of medical texts improved user confidence and enhanced patient care [ 18].
Other studies have been conducted to determine whether mobile phone text messaging improves TB treatment adherence 13 15; however, a recent systematic review highlighted the paucity of high-quality research in this area and the need for further RCTs.
Levie & Lentz performed a review of 55 experiments comparing learning from illustrated text with learning from text alone, and concluded that in 85 % of these cases, illustrated text significantly improved retention compared to text alone [ 23].
The study investigates whether the restoration of the text visual signals improve text memorization and comprehension when automatically converting a text into speech.
