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Direct linkde Jong, Ton – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2010
Cognitive load is a theoretical notion with an increasingly central role in the educational research literature. The basic idea of cognitive load theory is that cognitive capacity in working memory is limited, so that if a learning task requires too much capacity, learning will be hampered. The recommended remedy is to design instructional systems…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Educational Research, Short Term Memory, Instructional Systems
