Efficiency in Learning offers a road map of the most effective ways to use the three fundamental communication of training: visuals, written text, and audio. Regardless of how you are delivering your training materials--in the classroom, in print, by synchronous or asynchronous media--the book's methods are easily applied to your lesson presentations, handouts, reference guides, or e-learning screens. Designed to be a down-to-earth resource for all instructional professionals, Efficiency in Learning's guidelines are clearly illustrated with real-world examples.
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"Sweller's Cognitive Load Theory has emerged as one of the mostimportant and best researched bases for improving design ofinstruction...provides the first book-length practical design guideto the application of CLT."
--Rob Foshay, senior vice president, Instructional Design andResearch, Whitney University
"Riveting reading for anyone who wants to understand humanmental processes and how they influence our behavior."
--Nancy Curtis, instructional designer, Element K
"Provides a distinguished example demonstrating how researchfindings can be made usable for practitioners."
--Alexander Renkl, professor, Department of Psychology,Educational Psychology, University of Freiburg
"Research on cognitive load theory has yielded many guidelinesfor the design of effective instruction. This excellent bookclearly describes and illustrates those guidelines forpractitioners in the field of education and training."
--Jeroen J.G. van Merrienboer, coauthor, IntegratedE-Learning
"Nowhere else in book form will you find the guidelines that arehere."
--Timothy W. Spannaus, instructional technology, Wayne StateUniversity
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