{"id":99202,"date":"2026-09-16T09:34:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=99202"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:34:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:34:48","slug":"how-to-reduce-cognitive-load-in-digital-lessons-etsmagazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2026\/09\/16\/how-to-reduce-cognitive-load-in-digital-lessons-etsmagazine\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reduce Cognitive Load in Digital Lessons [etsmagazine]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/educationtechnologysolutions.com\/2026\/09\/how-to-reduce-cognitive-load-in-digital-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How to Reduce Cognitive Load in Digital Lessons<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from educationtechnologysolutions.com by etsmagazine<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">A digital lesson can be beautifully designed and still make learning unnecessarily hard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Students may be asked to watch a video, remember an instruction, find a link, switch tabs, interpret unfamiliar icons and submit a response\u2014all before they have dealt with the idea the lesson was meant to teach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That friction is often mistaken for rigour. It is not. Productive difficulty comes from thinking about the content. Avoidable difficulty comes from navigating the lesson.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The goal is not to make learning effortless. It is to spend students\u2019 limited attention on the knowledge and skill that matter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>The above article links to:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edresearch.edu.au\/summaries-explainers\/explainers\/managing-cognitive-load-optimises-learning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Managing cognitive load optimises learning<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from edresearch.edu.au<br \/>\n<em>Implications for policymakers<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Reduce Cognitive Load in Digital Lessons &#8212; from educationtechnologysolutions.com by etsmagazine A digital lesson can be beautifully designed and still make learning unnecessarily hard. 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