Effects of Feedback Providers' Positive Emotional Tone and Gender on Learning From a Multimedia Lesson.
Background and Objective: The positivity principle states that students learn better from instructors who display positive rather than negative or neutral emotions in multimedia lessons (Lawson et al. 2021a). This study extends this work by exploring the role of affective and social cues displayed b...
| Published in: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 1 - 29 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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