Perceptions and Effects of Image Transmissions during Internet-based Training.

Abstract This article reports on a study that examined the influence of a student's visual access to the instructor during Internet‐based audiographics training. A four‐day factual course on information operations was taught through lecture and slides over the Internet to n = 110 students situated at seven remote sites. The availability of instructor video was manipulated. For two instructional modules, the transmission of the instructor video was disabled for half of the students while the other half could view the instructor; this procedure was reversed for two other modules. The results showed that increasing the video capability of an Internet‐based course does not necessarily improve the learning of factual information.

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