Overview
- Provides definitive statement of unique cognitive architecture and novel instructional design principles generated by cognitive load theory
- Contains the most inclusive and comprehensive review of the literature on cognitive load theory conducted
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies (LSIS, volume 1)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries to Cognitive Load Theory
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Human Cognitive Architecture
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Categories of Cognitive Load
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Cognitive Load Effects
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About this book
Over the last 25 years, cognitive load theory has become one of the world’s leading theories of instructional design. It is heavily researched by many educational and psychological researchers and is familiar to most practicing instructional designers, especially designers using computer and related technologies.
The theory can be divided into two aspects that closely inter-relate and influence each other: human cognitive architecture and the instructional designs and prescriptions that flow from that architecture. The cognitive architecture is based on biological evolution. The resulting description of human cognitive architecture is novel and accordingly, the instructional designs that flow from the architecture also are novel. All instructional procedures are routinely tested using randomized, controlled experiments.
Roughly 1/3 of the book will be devoted to cognitive architecture and its evolutionary base with 2/3 devoted to the instructional implications that follow, including technology-based instruction. Researchers, teachers and instructional designers need the book because of the explosion of interest in cognitive load theory over the last few years. The theory is represented in countless journal articles but a detailed, modern overview presenting the theory and its implications in one location is not available.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cognitive Load Theory
Authors: John Sweller, Paul Ayres, Slava Kalyuga
Series Title: Explorations in the Learning Sciences, Instructional Systems and Performance Technologies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8126-4
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-8125-7Published: 30 March 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-8126-4Published: 07 April 2011
Series ISSN: 2512-1715
Series E-ISSN: 2512-1723
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 274
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Educational Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Learning & Instruction