Slava Kalyuga

In classroom, student learning is affected by multiple factors that influence information processing. Working memory with its limited capacity and duration plays a key role in...

With advancement in technology, hypermedia learning environments are becoming more common in education. Such environments present the multiple representations of information in a...

Cognitive load theory investigates instructional consequences of processing limitations of the human cognitive system. Because of these limitations, text processing may result in...

We argue that the effectiveness of simulations for science education depends on design features such as the type of representation chosen to depict key concepts. We hypothesize...

Research in multimedia and computer-based learning has entered a new phase with a focus on adapting instruction to characteristics of individual learners. Managing Cognitive Load...

We propose that the effectiveness of simulations for science education depends on design features such as the type of representation chosen to depict key concepts. We hypothesize...

In order to design effective and efficient multimedia applications, major characteristics of human cognition and its processing limitations should be taken into account. A...

This chapter provides an overview of our cognitive architecture and its implications for the design of game-based learning environments. Design of educational technologies should...

One of the major components of our cognitive architecture, working memory, becomes overloaded if more than a few chunks of information are processed simultaneously. For example...

Cognitive load theory is a learning and instruction theory that describes instructional design implications of human cognitive architecture outlined in the previous chapter....

Cognitive studies of expertise that were reviewed in Chapter I indicated that prior knowledge is the most important 1earner characteristic that influences learning processes....

Main implication of the expertise reversal effect is the need to tailor instructional techniques and procedures to changing levels of learner expertise in a specific task domain....

Availability of valid and usable measures of cognitive load involved in learning is essential for providing support for cognitive load-based explanations of the effects predicted...

Chapter VI describes specific evidence-based methods for managing cognitive load in verbal and pictorial information representations. According to the major forms of memory...

Most sophisticated multimedia learning environments include various interactivity features. Interactive multimedia learning environments respond dynamically to learner specific...

According to dual-coding theory, when learning concrete concepts, adding pictorial representations could be superior to verbal-only descriptions (Clark & Paivio, 1991; Sadoski &...

Instructional simulation and games are usually used as substitutes for actual equipment, processes, real-life problems, and social situations. They allow observing outcomes of...

Personalized adaptive multimedia environments provide individual learners or learner groups with experience that is specifically tailored to them. To achieve effective...

This chapter describes some specific adaptive procedures for tailoring levels of instructional guidance to individual levels of learner task-specific expertise to optimize...

The rapid diagnostic approach to evaluating levels of learner task-specific expertise was introduced in Chapter IV and used in several studies that were subsequently described...

This chapter provides an overview of theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence for the design of adaptive multimedia that is tailored to individual levels of user expertise...