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Cognitive load theory in health professional education: Design principles and strategies

dc.contributor.author Sweller, John en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T17:24:24Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T17:24:24Z
dc.date.issued 2010 en_US
dc.description.abstract Context  Cognitive load theory aims to develop instructional design guidelines based on a model of human cognitive architecture. The architecture assumes a limited working memory and an unlimited long-term memory holding cognitive schemas; expertise exclusively comes from knowledge stored as schemas in long-term memory. Learning is described as the construction and automation of such schemas. Three types of cognitive load are distinguished: intrinsic load is a direct function of the complexity of the performed task and the expertise of the learner; extraneous load is a result of superfluous processes that do not directly contribute to learning, and germane load is caused by learning processes that deal with intrinsic cognitive load. Objectives  This paper discusses design guidelines that will decrease extraneous load, manage intrinsic load and optimise germane load. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/50773
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title Cognitive load theory in health professional education: Design principles and strategies en_US
dc.type Journal Article en
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unsw.identifier.doiPublisher http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03498.x en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Arts Design & Architecture
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal Medical Education en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 85-93 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume 44 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Sweller, John, Education, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Education *
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