Students Retain Information in Print-Like Formats Better - Wired Campus - The Chronicle... - 28 views
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It is harder to keep track of where information is located within an online document versus the more-apparent page markers in a print-style text
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But the scrolling interface of online documents had little impact on the students in the study with high working-memory capacity, or a good ability to process and retrieve information.
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More study is needed on the impact that scrolling has on learning, he said, especially given the prevalence of online tools in the classroom and in distance learning.