Course coordinators add readings to their course ideally to support, extend, and connect student thinking about the content explicitly delivered in the face-to-face and the
Category: Cognitive load
Helping students distribute group work evenly
This is the 19th post in a series titled ‘All Things Group Work’. The home page is here. In a previous post outlining the pedagogy behind
Chunking as a pedagogy
Chunking involves breaking up new learning into discrete sections in order to avoid cognitive overload, and to promote schema development. Using cognitive science to explain
Group work formation: equal cognitive ability or not?
This is the 18th post in a series titled ‘All Things Group Work’. The home page is here. In the last post, I discussed whether friendship
6 ways to help learners recalibrate attention in a lecture
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
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)
LEARNING DESIGN by Paul G Moss 