William Winn

William Winn (1945-2006) was a Professor at the University of Washington School of Education. Their previous affiliations included Universite de Sherbrooke and University of Calgary. They completed their PhD at Indiana University and the title of their dissertation was Similarity of Hierarchically Organized Pairs of Pictures and Words as Reported by Field-Dependent and Field-Independent High-School Seniors. Dr. Winn’s research interests focused on educational psychology and included digram learning (maps, charts, and diagrams), instructional design, cognitive learning theories, constructivist theories of learning, and virtual environments in education and training. Some of Dr. Winn’s work include:

• Winn, W. Current Trends in Educational Technology Research: The Study of Learning Environments. Educational Psychology Review, Vol. 14, No. 3 (2002), pp. 331-351, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23363551

• Winn, W. Research Methods and Types of Evidence for Research in Educational Technology. Educational Psychology Review 15, 367–373 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026131416764

• Winn, W. (1994). Contributions of perceptual and cognitive processes to the comprehension of graphics. In W. Schnotz & R. W. Kulhavy (Eds.), Comprehension of graphics (pp. 3–27). North-Holland/Elsevier Science Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4115(09)60105-9

• Winn, W. & Snyder, D. Cognitive perspectives in psychology. Jonassen, D., Spector, M.J., Driscoll, M., Merrill, M.D., van Merrienboer, J., & Driscoll, M.P. Eds. Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology: A Project of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2007, 3rd ed. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203880869 Cognitive perspectives in psychology (aect.org)

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• William Winn

• University of Washington