[quoting Hart, 26 July 96.a] ...my point was that this is an old discussion. Since Clark's infamous trucks and groceries analogy of 1982 there has been so much gnashing of educational technological teeth that the psychodentists have had to be called in. Two (1994) issues of Educational Technology Research & Development were devoted to the debate and I think the consensus of opinion was that we all agree with Clark,...
Hmmm. Well, first of all, I apologize in that I haven't been involved in this type of research for very long and was ignorant of the fact that this is an old question that has already been answered and that everyone agrees (there are obviously some strong feelings). I have just recently become interested in multimedia learning. All of my previous research has been involved with cooperative learning strategies and alternative types of verbal/visual displays (on paper, not computers). (Lots and lots of studies involving different kinds of vehicles for delivering, what was it, lettuce?). Second, I would point out that I would not have been able to learn about these previous debates, or probably ever heard anything from researchers 50 miles down the road, much less Hong Kong, had it not been for (what seems to me to be a really powerful and important truck) the Internet.
...now let's go and do something useful
and this would be?