Areas of Focus
- Network Learning
- Multimedia Learning Based on Video and Animation
- Network/Touchscreen Media and Children's Cognitive Development
- Eye Movement Technology
Work Experience
- 2009.7 - Present: School of Psychology, Central China Normal University
- 2023.11 - Present: School of Psychology, The University of Queensland (UQ), Visiting Scholar
- 2016.9 - 2017.11: Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), Visiting Scholar
- 2016.6 - 2016.7: State University of New York, Oswego, TEI Training
- 2013.8 - 2014.8: Department of Psychology, University of Virginia (UVA), Visiting Scholar
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2009.7 PhD in Developmental and Educational Psychology: Beijing Normal University
Publications
- Role of gesturing onscreen instructors in video lectures: A set of three-level meta-analyses on the embodiment effect, Li, W.*, Kuang, Z., Leng, X., Mayer, R. E. & Wang, F.*, 2024
- Increasing the realism of on-screen instructors creates more looking but less learning, Li, W.*, Wang, F.*, & Mayer, R. E., 2024
- Effects of explaining a science lesson to others or to oneself: A cognitive neuroscience approach, Zhu, W., Wang, F.*, Mayer, R. E., & Liu, T., 2024
- How to train students to engage in text-picture integration for multimedia lessons, Leng, X., Wang, F.*, Mayer, R. E., & Zhao, T., 2024
- Instructor’s direct gaze not body orientation affects learning, Kuang, Z., Wang, F.*, Andrasik, F., & Hu, X.*, 2024
- Is student learning from a video lecture affected by whether the instructor wears a mask?, Leng, X., Wang, F.*, & Mayer, R. E., 2024
- Effect of the instructor's eye gaze on student learning from video lectures: Evidence from two three-level meta-analyses, Kuang, Z., Wang, F.*, Xie, H., Mayer, R. E., & Hu, X., 2023
- Ocular foundations of the spatial contiguity principle: Designing multimedia materials for parafoveal vision, Yang, X., Wang, F.*, Mayer, R. E., Hu, X., & Gu, C., 2023
- Benefits of asking students to make an instructional video of a multimedia lesson: Clarifying the learning-by-teaching hypothesis, Cheng, M., Wang, F.*, & Mayer, R. E., 2023
- Improving learning-by-teaching without audience interaction as a generative learning activity by minimizing the social presence of the audience, Wang, F.*, Cheng, M., & Mayer, R. E., 2023
- Benefits of prompting students to generate summaries during pauses in segmented multimedia lessons, Wang, Y., Wang, F.*, Mayer, R. E., Hu, X., & Gong, S., 2023
- How to guide learners' processing of multimedia lessons with pedagogical agents, Li, W.*, Wang, F.*, & Mayer, R. E., 2023
- Multimedia learning with animated pedagogical agents, Wang, F., Li, W., & Zhao, T., 2022
- Animated pedagogical agents enhance learning outcomes and brain activity during learning, Li, W., Wang, F.*, Mayer, R. E., & Liu, T., 2022
- Using eye movement modeling examples to guide visual attention and foster cognitive performance: A meta-analysis, Xie, H., Zhao, T., Deng, S., Peng, J., Wang, F., & Zhou, Z., 2021
- Guiding the learner's cognitive processing of a narrated animation, Wang, F.*, Zhao, T., Mayer, R. E., & Wang, Y., 2020
- Getting the point: Which kinds of gestures by pedagogical agents improve multimedia learning?, Li, W., Wang, F.*, Mayer, R. E., & Liu, H., 2019
- Coordinating visual and auditory cueing in multimedia learning, Xie, H., Mayer, R. E., Wang, F.*, & Zhou, Z*., 2019
- Animated pedagogical agents as aids in multimedia learning: Effects on eye-fixations during learning and learning outcomes, Wang, F.*, Li, W., Mayer, R. E., & Liu, H.*, 2018
- The more cognitive load is reduced by cues, the better retention and transfer of multimedia learning: A meta-analysis and two meta-regression analyses, Xie, H., Wang, F. *, Hao, Y., Chen, J., An, J., Wang, Y., & Liu, H., 2017
- 增加测验互动的教学代理对多媒体学习的影响, 乔沛桦, 成美霞, 王福兴*, 2024
- 提示对学习者自我生成教学过程和学习效果的作用, 王福兴*, 黄宇, 张洋, 祝婉玲, 冷晓雪, 2024
- 记忆的生成绘图效应及其边界条件:一项元分析, 谢和平, 王燕青, 王福兴, 周宗奎*, 邓素娥, 段朝辉, 2024
- 自我生成教学促进多媒体学习:绘图的作用, 王福兴*, 黄宇, 冷晓雪, & 匡子翌, 2023
- 动作化学习的有效性及其影响机制, 匡子翌, 祝婉玲, 成美霞, 王福兴*, 胡祥恩*, 2023
- 以教促学:学习者自我生成教学对学习的影响, 成美霞, 匡子翌, 冷晓雪, 张洋, 王福兴*, 2023
- 生成性绘图与合作对高中生科学知识学习的影响, 张洋,张婉莹,王燕青,赵婷婷,王福兴*, 2022
- 视频教学中教师的眼神注视能否促进学习?, 匡子翌, 成美霞, 李文静, 王福兴*, 胡祥恩*, 2022
- 分段是学习的有效方式么?, 王燕青, 杨晓梦, 赵婷婷, 高春颍, 张洋, 赵庆柏, 王福兴*, 胡祥恩*, 2022
- 测验与反馈在分段视频学习中的作用, 冷晓雪, 成美霞, 王福兴*, 2022
- 教师的存在能否促进学习?, 匡子翌, 张洋, 王福兴*, 杨晓梦, 胡祥恩*, 2021
- 教学微视频的播放速度对学习效果的影响, 马安然, 王燕青,王福兴*, 周治金*, 2021
- 多媒体学习环境下线索原则是否存在经验逆转
Awards
- Second Prize in Teaching Achievement Award for 'Innovation and Exploration of Full English Psychology Undergraduate Teaching Model' at Central China Normal University
- First Prize in Teaching Excellence Award for 2014-2015 at Central China Normal University
- First Prize in Teaching Excellence Award for 2010-2011 at Central China Normal University
- Third Prize in Teaching Excellence Award for 2009-2010 at Central China Normal University
- Outstanding Internship Supervisor for Education Graduates in 2010 at Central China Normal University
- Outstanding Graduate Student in 2009 at Beijing Normal University