Effectiveness of Animation

The following conclusions are based on research on the effectiveness of animation:

1. "Animation should be incorporated only when its attributes are congruent to the learning task."
2. "Evidence suggests that when learners are novices in the content area, they may not know how to attend to relevant cues or details provided by animation."
3. "Animation's greatest contributions to CBI [Computer Based Instruction] may lie in interactive graphic applications."

See Lloyd Reiber Computers, Graphics, & Animation, 1994