TY - JOUR
T1 - Cognitive load theory and multimedia learning, task characteristics and learning engagement
T2 - The Current State of the Art
AU - Kirschner, Femke
AU - Kester, Liesbeth
AU - Corbalan, Gemma
PY - 2011/1
Y1 - 2011/1
N2 - Some of the empirical research papers focusing on improving instructional design from a cognitive load theory (CLT), included in the Third International Cognitive Load Theory Conference held at the Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2009, are compiled. CLT uses current knowledge about the human cognitive architecture to generate instructional techniques. Baddeley & Hitch found that this architecture consists of an effectively unlimited long-term memory (LTM), which interacts with a working memory (WM) that is very limited in both capacity. The empirical evidence of a learning process occurring over a long period of time is in the study of chess grandmasters by De Groot, 1946, 1978 and Simon & Gilmartin, 1973. Lee and Kalyuga, (2011) studied the multimedia redundancy effect in using pinyin to learn the Chinese language. Wetzels, Kester, and Van Merriënboer, (2011) used a static multimedia learning environment to teach students about the functioning of the heart.
AB - Some of the empirical research papers focusing on improving instructional design from a cognitive load theory (CLT), included in the Third International Cognitive Load Theory Conference held at the Open University, Heerlen, The Netherlands, 2009, are compiled. CLT uses current knowledge about the human cognitive architecture to generate instructional techniques. Baddeley & Hitch found that this architecture consists of an effectively unlimited long-term memory (LTM), which interacts with a working memory (WM) that is very limited in both capacity. The empirical evidence of a learning process occurring over a long period of time is in the study of chess grandmasters by De Groot, 1946, 1978 and Simon & Gilmartin, 1973. Lee and Kalyuga, (2011) studied the multimedia redundancy effect in using pinyin to learn the Chinese language. Wetzels, Kester, and Van Merriënboer, (2011) used a static multimedia learning environment to teach students about the functioning of the heart.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.chb.2010.05.003
DO - 10.1016/j.chb.2010.05.003
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78649908228
SN - 0747-5632
VL - 27
SP - 1
EP - 4
JO - Computers in Human Behavior
JF - Computers in Human Behavior
IS - 1
ER -