Eight Ways to Promote Generative Learning

By Logan Fiorella, Richard E. Mayer. 2016

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education

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Enhancing Example-Based Learning: Teaching on Video Increases Arousal and Improves Problem-Solving Performance (2019, background): “…elaborate on the learning material, to expose and repair knowledge gaps, and thereby to organize the acquired information into coherent and rich cognitive schemas (Coleman, Brown, & Rivkin, 1997; Fiorella & Mayer, 2016; King, 1994; Ploetzner et al., 1999; Roscoe & Chi, 2007, 2008; Webb, 1989).”
Learning Science in Immersive Virtual Reality (2018, methodology): “The generative learning strategy of interest in this study is summarizing, or taking the important information from a lesson and putting it into one’s owns words (Fiorella & Mayer, 2016).”
The impact of augmented reality on cognitive load and performance: A systematic review (2021, methodology): “One example from our lab is adding generative learning strategies (Fiorella & Mayer, 2016) to learning environments that use AR as instructional media, for example, engaging learners in a self-explaining activity during interacting with the AR materials (Buchner, 2021).”
Does a Knowledge Generation Approach to Learning Benefit Students? A Systematic Review of Research on the Science Writing Heuristic Approach (2020, background): “The SWH approach does not emphasize any particular generative strategy, but considers the eight generative strategies as a collective or strategy cluster (Fiorella and Mayer 2015) used in different phases and contexts of learning science.”
Investigating the effect of pre-training when learning through immersive virtual reality and video: A media and methods experiment (2019, background): “While this study speci ﬁ cally deals with the pre-training principle, our ﬁ ndings might be generalizable to other instructional methods that currently serve a similar function of limiting intrinsic cognitive load (examples of these can be found in Fiorella & Mayer, 2016).”
How Students Learn Content in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Through Drawing Activities (2019, unknown): “…(e.g., summarizing text, interpreting illustrations), drawing activities have often been found to yield enhanced or comparable learning outcomes (Fiorella and Mayer 2015; Leopold and Leutner 2012), although one study found drawing to be less effective than summarizing scientific text (Leutner…”
Immersive virtual reality increases liking but not learning with a science simulation and generative learning strategies promote learning in immersive virtual reality. (2020, methodology): “Several studies suggest that adding a generative learning strategy as an instructional method, in combination with the respective media can help learners understand the material in deeper ways (Fiorella & Mayer, 2012, 2016; Parong & Mayer, 2018; Pilegard & Mayer, 2016).”
It’s All a Matter of Perspective: Viewing First-Person Video Modeling Examples Promotes Learning of an Assembly Task (2017, unknown): “…by explaining, which indicates that generating explanations is an effective learning strategy (Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Nathan, & Willingham, 2013; Fiorella & Mayer, 2015a, 2015b), it was expected that instructing participants that they would have to explain how to build the circuit afterward,…”