Questions of the Week

Adobe Captivate: Can I Stop The Presentation From Continuing After a Web Link?

I have a Captivate slide that contains buttons taking the student to one of our Web pages (a link to a URL). My problem is I'm not sure how to get the lesson to stop playing while the student checks out the site... as it stands now, the lesson continues to play in the background.

Answer:

Show the Properties of the object that initiates the URL link. Click the little arrow at the right of Open URL or File and deselect "Continue playing project."

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eLearning Development: Can You Cite Research References?

Regarding last week's informative article by Jennie Ruby (Do You Need Both Screen Captions and Voiceover Narration?). Could you provide the references for her research?

Answer:

Primary source:
 
Ruth Colvin Clark & Richard E. Mayer, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction. 2008. Pfeiffer, an imprint of John Wiley and Sons.
 
Secondary sources:
 
Craig, Gholson, & Driscoll, 2002.Animated pedagogical agents in multimedia learning environments: Effects of agent properties, picture features, and redundancy. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 428-434.
 
Mayer, Heiser,  & Lonn, 2001. Cognitive constraints on multimedia learning: When presenting more material results in less understanding. Journal of Educational Psychology, 93, 187-198.
 
Moreno & Mayer, 2002. Verbal redundancy in multimedia learning: When reading helps listening. Journal of Educational Psychology, 94, 156-163.
 
Mayer & Moreno 2003. Nine ways to reduce cognitive load in multimedia learning. Educational Psychologist, 38, 43-52.
 
Mayer 2005. Principles for reducing extraneous processing in multimedia learning: Coherence, signaling, redundancy, spatial contiguity, and temporal contiguity. In R.E. Mayer (Ed.), The Cambridge handbook of multimedia learning (pp. 183-200). New York: Cambridge University Press.

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Comments

[soumya]

The presentation continues to play even after I have DESELECTED the "Continue Playing Project" under the little arrow next to Open URL or File.

Please help.