Learning as a Generative Activity: Eight Learning Strategies that Promote Understanding

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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,…”
Effects of Observing the Instructor Draw Diagrams on Learning from Multimedia Messages. (2016, background): “…essential processing (and corresponds to the cognitive process of selecting)—and foster cognitive processing necessary for making sense of the material—or what is referred to as generative processing (and corresponds to the cognitive processes of organizing and integrating; Fiorella & Mayer, 2015).”