{"id":87821,"date":"2023-07-13T16:59:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=87821"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:59:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T20:59:01","slug":"sources-of-cognitive-load-learningscientists-org-a-video-i-created-re-the-cognitive-load-theory-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/07\/13\/sources-of-cognitive-load-learningscientists-org-a-video-i-created-re-the-cognitive-load-theory-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources of Cognitive Load [learningscientists.org] + a video I created re: the Cognitive Load Theory [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2023\/7\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sources of Cognitive Load<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from learningscientists.org<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Cognitive Load Theory is an influential theory from educational psychology that describes how various factors affect our ability to use our working memory resources. We\u2019ve done a digest about cognitive load theory <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/10\/weekly-digest-89\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and talked about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2018\/9\/13-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningscientists.org\/blog\/2021\/11\/11-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, but haven\u2019t provided an overview of the theory so I want to give an overview here.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nCognitive load theory provides useful and dynamic model for how many different factors affect working memory and learning. Hopefully this post provides a useful overview of some of the main components of cognitive load!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Along these lines, a while back I put together<\/span> <span style=\"color: #339966;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/presentations\/What-is-Cognitive-Load-and-Why-Should-I-Care.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a video regarding <em>cognitive load<\/em>.<\/a> <span style=\"color: #800000;\">It addresses at least two main questions:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>What is cognitive load?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Why should I care about it?<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/presentations\/What-is-Cognitive-Load-and-Why-Should-I-Care.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69932 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CognitiveLoad-3-types-1024x527.jpg\" alt=\"What is cognitive load? And why should I care about it?\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CognitiveLoad-3-types-1024x527.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CognitiveLoad-3-types-150x77.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CognitiveLoad-3-types-768x395.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/CognitiveLoad-3-types.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/presentations\/What-is-Cognitive-Load-and-Why-Should-I-Care.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69931 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Information-processing-theory-3-1024x639.jpg\" alt=\"What is cognitive load? And why should I care about it?\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Information-processing-theory-3-1024x639.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Information-processing-theory-3-150x94.jpg 150w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Information-processing-theory-3-768x479.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Information-processing-theory-3.jpg 1282w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/presentations\/Transcript%20for%20video%20re%20cognitive%20load.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transcript here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>How do I put it into practice?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Simplify the explanations of what you&#8217;re presenting as much as possible and break down complex tasks into smaller parts<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Don&#8217;t place a large amount of text on a slide and then talk about it at the same time<\/strong> &#8212; doing so requires much more processing than most people can deal with.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Consider creating two versions of your PowerPoint files:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A text-light version that can be used for presenting that content to students<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">A text-heavy version &#8212; which can be posted to your LMS for the learners to go through at their own pace &#8212; and without trying to process so much information (voice and text, for example) at one time.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Design-wise:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Don&#8217;t use decorative graphics &#8212;\u00a0<em>everything<\/em>\u00a0on a slide should be there for a reason<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Don&#8217;t use too many fonts or colors &#8212; this can be distracting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Don&#8217;t use background music when you are trying to explain something<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sources of Cognitive Load &#8212; from learningscientists.org Excerpt: Cognitive Load Theory is an influential theory from educational psychology that describes how various factors affect our ability to use our working memory resources. We\u2019ve done a digest about cognitive load theory here and talked about it here and here, but haven\u2019t provided an overview of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,394,115,498,302,72,71,119,102,838,223,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-attention","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-daniel-s-christian","category-faculty-staff","category-instructional-design","category-learning","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-theories","category-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87823,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87821\/revisions\/87823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}