Essential Processing Overload
Essential Processing Overload
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This suggests that cognitive processing does not or has little capacity to undergo deeper processing of the presented material due to:
limited time in processing the content provided as it is fast-paced
complexity of the material presented or inability to comprehend the material as the learner is inexperienced
Essential Material
Essential Material
These refer to the core information from the lesson in order to achieve instructional goal.
- The Segmenting Principle
This principle suggests that segmenting or dividing the content can help individuals to control the pace of their learning rather than an immense continuous stream of information presented in the materials.
An example of segmentation is dividing the parts into sections that are connected to each other, not making it a continuous stream of information
2. The Pre-Training Principle
2. The Pre-Training Principle
The pre-training principle states that having a basic knowledge of concepts and tools can enable learners to understand complex ideas. This can also prevent learners to be overwhelmed by the concepts and key ideas that the material contains as they have previous knowledge related to it.
3. The Modality Principle
3. The Modality Principle
This principle involves "modality offloading" as the cognitive load is not concentrated on one modality but rather uses the visual and verbal channels of the learner. As such, pictures and narration are ideal to use together as it involves two of our senses (visual and auditory) instead of pictures and on-screen text as it depends on one modality alone (visual).
Pacing ourselves and knowing the basic concepts can help us avoid being overwhelmed by the multimedia instruction provided to us. Utilizing various sense channels can enable us to do modality offloading.
Pacing ourselves and knowing the basic concepts can help us avoid being overwhelmed by the multimedia instruction provided to us. Utilizing various sense channels can enable us to do modality offloading.
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