Browsing by Subject "Instructional materials"

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    Experiencia educativa sobre la comprensión de emociones y creencias en alumnado con trastornos del espectro autista
    (Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2010-01-01) Lozano Martínez, Josefina; Alcaraz García, Salvador; Colás Bravo, Pilar
    This study reports the effect of an educational intervention based on the understanding of emotions and beliefs in students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research was conducted on seven pupils of Primary Education and five of Secondary Education. A unique group, pre-test and post-test, design was employed. To collect information, didactic materials were elaborated. For the assessment of effect of this teaching on the social daily skills, interviews with teachers were administered. The results showed statistically significant differences between levels of understanding of emotions and beliefs before and after the educational intervention and interviews we report positive effects in daily social skills. These results suggest that the process of educational intervention carried out on the basis of the education of the understanding of emotions and beliefs can produce positive effects in the social skills.
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    LongForm or Microcontent? An analysis of supports for digital content courseware
    (Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Santana Gomes, Nicole; Ximenes Martins, Ronei; Simone Azevedo, Daniela
    The use of digital educational resources has expanded considerably, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the educational materials used in these resources, the Microcontent (MC) format predominates, with its fragmented and small information units. So, we ask: can the LongForm (LF) format, which allows the presentation of dense and extensive content, be a viable alternative to MC, when applied to complex educational content, specific to undergraduate courses? The LF, hypothetically, can offer better support for higher distance education courses. To answer the question, an educational activity, elaborated in both formats, was applied to 67 students from a university of Minas Gerais state, in Brazil. The observation of student activity revealed their preferences: MC has shown to be good for building learning with smaller materials in both size and content complexity, but LF was more appropriated when dealing with complex, dense, multimedia-requiring contents to facilitate understanding. It was confirmed that the LF presents itself as a viable alternative for online studying because it is constituted by a single virtual space where larger texts and varied multimedia resources can be inserted to enrich the educational material and to offer the full content for students