| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 99 === Innovative techniques make the present learning instructional materials different from the traditional classroom. Computer-based learning has become more and more popular in the higher education. For example, many classes in colleges have been taught in traditional way and accompanied by PowerPoint recently. Besides PowerPoint, avatars are new-developed instructional materials for supporting educational activities, and were regarded as a helpful medium for education (de Freitas, 2006). Thus, this paper explores and discusses the relationship between learners’ perception towards different types of learning materials (human-like avatar and PowerPoint) and their learning outcomes. An experimental design was used and participants who were students in Asia University were randomly assigned to two treatment groups: Students of the class with human-like avatar or students of the class with PowerPoint. A questionnaire was used to collect data from 81 students in the class with human-like avatar and 49 students in the class with PowerPoint. Pilot test data for the achievement test yielded acceptable reliability and validity. Descriptive statistics was conducted to understand the distribution of participants’ backgrounds; furthermore, path analysis was used to analyze the model and MANOVA was for comparing the difference of each variable in the two classes. At a 0.05 level of significance, the results indicated that there were not sufficient evidence to prove significant relationship between flow and satisfaction or motivation and learning outcomes. From the result of MANOVA, the mean score of the PowerPoint class was higher than the avatar one in socialness perception, arousal
and motivation.
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