Efficiency in learning: evidence-based guidelines to manage cognitive load/

Main Author: Clark, Ruth Colvin
Other Authors: Nguyen, Frank,, Sweller, John,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco: Pfeiffer, c2006
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Table of Contents:
  • Cognitive load and efficiency in learning.
  • The psychology of efficiency.
  • Use visuals and audio narration to exploit working memory resources.
  • Focus attention and avoid split attention.
  • Weed your training to manage limited working memory capacity.
  • Provide external memory support to reduce working memory load.
  • Use segmenting, sequencing, and learner pacing to impose content gradually.
  • Transition from worked examples to practice to impose mental work gradually.
  • Put working memory to work with germane load.
  • Accommodate differences in learner expertise.
  • Use rapid testing to adapt e-learning to learner expertise.
  • Applying cognitive load theory.
  • The evolution of cognitive load theory : a personal perspective / by John Sweller.