Supporting Learning from Worked-Out Examples in Computer-Based Learning Environments

Gerjets, Scheiter, and Tack (2000) demonstrated that learners experience serious difficulties in utilizing instructional examples according to their profitability when learning with a nonlinear hypertext environment. In two experimental studies we examined two possible causes of these difficulties and investigated different instructional methods for improving learners’ example utilization when interacting with a learning and problem-solving environment in the domain of combinatorics.