The Effect of Highlighting on Cognitive Load and Visual Attention in Multimedia Learning
Signaling can be used to guide learners’ attention to relevant details of instructional materials, and consequently can foster multimedia learning. We investigate how signaling, and highlighting specifically, are predictive of individual learning performance in short-term knowledge acquisition, mediated by cognitive load and visual attention employing biometrically using electroencephalog- raphy (EEG) and eye-tracking measures. We perform a two-level experiment on short-term knowledge acquisition within the context of an online course, with content-highl...