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- | In practice, explanation prompts can be verbal, automatically generated by a computer or incorporated in the learning material. | + | In practice, explanation prompts can be **verbal**, **automatically generated by a computer** or **incorporated in the learning material**, but no matter the form, their goal is to elicit active processing and verbalization/explanation of the learned principle. |
An example of an explanation prompt is the following: | An example of an explanation prompt is the following: | ||
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+ | A recent research has revealed some negative aspects of explanation prompting. Prompts can lead to cognitive overload facilitating conceptual, but hindering procedural knowledge acquisition.(([[http://www.springerlink.com/content/733216845622539k/|Berthold, Kirsten, Tessa H. S. Eysink, and Alexander Renkl. Assisting self-explanation prompts are more effective than open prompts when learning with multiple representations. Instructional Science 37: 345-363, April 2008.]])) |