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Visual educational media refers to instructional resources that communicate learning content primarily through visual representation, such as images, diagrams, charts, animations, videos, simulations, and infographics, to support comprehension, retention, and application of knowledge [1][2][3][4][5][6]. It is used to make abstract concepts observable, reduce cognitive ambiguity, and guide attention to key relationships in information [2]. Visual educational media is characterized by intentional design features (e.g., signaling, spatial contiguity, coherence, and visual hierarchy) that align media form with learning objectives and learner cognitive processing [2][3][4][5][6]. In educational practice and research, the term denotes pedagogically structured visual communication for learning, rather than decorative or entertainment visuals without explicit instructional function [1][2][3][4][5][6].

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  1. Richard E. Mayer. Multimedia Learning; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2009. [CrossRef]
  2. Ruth Colvin Clark, Richard E. Mayer. e‐Learning and the Science of Instruction; Wiley: Hoboken, NJ, United States, 2016. [CrossRef]
  3. Richard E. Mayer. Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning; Cambridge University Press (CUP): Cambridge, United Kingdom, 2014; pp. 43-71. [CrossRef]
  4. Mary Hegarty; The Cognitive Science of Visual‐Spatial Displays: Implications for Design. Top. Cogn. Sci. 2011, 3, 446-474. [CrossRef]
  5. Cynthia J. Brame; Effective Educational Videos: Principles and Guidelines for Maximizing Student Learning from Video Content. CBE—Life Sci. Educ. 2016, 15, es6. [CrossRef]
  6. Philip J. Guo; Juho Kim; Rob Rubin. How video production affects student engagement; Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, United States, 2014; pp. 41-50. [CrossRef]
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