Efficiency in learning evidence-based guidelines to manage cognitive load

Efficiency in Learning offers a road map of the most effective ways to use the three fundamental communication of training: visuals, written text, and audio. Regardless of how you are delivering your training materials-in the classroom, in print, by synchronous or asynchronous media-the book's...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Clark, Ruth Colvin (-)
Other Authors: Nguyen, Frank, 1975-, Sweller, John, 1946-
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass c2006.
Edition:1st edition
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627817706719
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.