Students sitting in a lecture have enormous amounts of extraneous load to deal with. The sheer size of the room means that the distance between
Category: Cognitive load
THE POWER OF MAKING CONNECTIONS
”As the student accommodates this new learning into their LTM, then the complexity of the next task can be increased. As Ericsson and Kintsch (1995)
Convincing students to ‘actively’ learn
Clearly the cover image for this post is super cynical, but I know many teachers and academics would identify with the metaphor of the continual
My contributions to Times Higher Education
From little things big things grow. Here is a curation of posts I have made in THE. There is also another post, but it is
3 Tips To Quickly Generate Learner Engagement In A New tri/Semester
Here are some tips to get things off to a positive start with new students. 1. Make a point of knowing learners’ names If you
When the exception becomes the rule
An increasing trend, it seems, is a phenomenon of the exception becoming the rule. This is when decisions that affect everyone in a specific context
LEARNING DESIGN by Paul G Moss 