{"id":333,"date":"2014-05-15T13:04:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T13:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2014-08-23T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T22:27:56","slug":"e-learning-challenge-instructional-design-learning-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/e-learning-challenge-instructional-design-learning-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"E-Learning Challenge #34: Instructional Design Learning Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a brief challenge hiatus, I decided that this week I would make a comeback. I’ve been swamped with work lately (not a bad problem to have), but was welcomed by some cognitive overload (goody!) earlier in the week and thought that this week’s challenge<\/a> would be a great opportunity to (briefly) discuss Cognitive Load Theory. I would be lying if I said that my recent addiction to Lumosity wasn’t a motivating factor for wanting to discuss this topic…that rule game…with the words (or shapes)?! Come on! If that doesn’t scream German Cognitive Load…I don’t know what does!<\/p>\n

The Concept<\/strong><\/p>\n

Select an Instructional Design (or learning) concept and create an interaction to explain this concept to others. Originally, I was going to do something related to Bloom’s Taxonomy, but 1 – I’m all Bloom’ed out for one month (to be honest) and 2 – there were already some great BT interactions kicking around the challenge thread, so I decided to choose Cognitive Load Theory as I often encounter training materials that are overloading (and overwhelming) learners to the point of becoming a hinderance on success.<\/p>\n

Honestly, it is ESSENTIAL for anyone who develops instructional materials to be cognizant of Cognitive Load Theory. I once worked on a very complex project that sought to explain alternating and direct current flow on an aircraft…while the project ended up being a success (to the clients), I experienced a lot of cognitive overload and hopefully I was the only one – while successful to the administrators of the program, I really hope it was successful for students because it confused the pants right offa me! No amount of explaining Extraneous Cognitive Load was going to save me from that project.<\/p>\n

The Method<\/strong><\/p>\n

When thinking about Cognitive Load Theory, I immediately \u00a0think about those complicated mathematical equations you would see people writing on university chalkboards in the movies (or maybe in your high school calculus class) – BARF. These equations would give me the math sweats. I would clam up and panic, and DREAD my teacher calling on me to come solve the equation in front of the class (seriously – whose idea of fun is this?!). \u00a0I consulted The Google and sourced some images of complex and simple mathematical equations to illustrate my point.<\/p>\n

Then, I provided some explanations and examples of the three types of Cognitive Load, using hotspot interactions and layers. The tutorial was brief, I know, but to supplement, I included a few good links in the Resources tab, and folks can check them out if they so wish.<\/p>\n

The Result<\/strong><\/p>\n

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To view the complete interaction, Click Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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