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 : Pfeifer, c2006.
Subjects:
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.