Efficiency in learning : evidence-based guidelines to manage cognitive load
by
 
Clark, Ruth Colvin.

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

Author
Clark, Ruth Colvin.

ISBN
9780787977283

Personal Author
Clark, Ruth Colvin.

Publication Information
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2006.

Physical Description
390 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

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.

Subject Term
Organizational learning.
 
Cognitive learning.

Added Author
Nguyen, Frank, 1975-
 
Sweller, John, 1946-

Electronic Access
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0512/2005010921.html
 
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0622/2005010921-d.html


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