Multimedia Pretraining to Teach Complex Content in Occupational Therapy Education.
Importance: Challenged to teach increasingly complex content to students, occupational therapy educators need effective instructional approaches. The explosion of multimedia and digital resources in college classrooms suggests that solutions to teaching complicated concepts should leverage education...
| Published in: | American Journal of Occupational Therapy Vol. 74; no. 6; pp. 1 - 10 |
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| Format: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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American Occupational Therapy Association
Nov/Dec200
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