Pedagogy
Embracing the principles of learning sciences to create digital courseware that captivates students and significantly improves their academic performance
Managing Cognitive Load
Learning is optimized when cognitive resources are efficiently allocated
- Connect to previous knowledge
- Animations
- Learning questions with immediate feedback
More reading with less text
- Students spend more time carefully reading
- Reduced likelihood of skimming large blocks of text
- Access research paper
Assessments
- Mastery-based challenge activities
- Randomized questions
6 Principles of focus
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Coherence
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Continuity
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Multimedia
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Pretraining
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Signaling
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Segmenting
Best practices for zyBooks design
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Cognitive load
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Engagement and motivation
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Timely, explicit feedback
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Minimalistic, student-focused design
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Leveraging multimedia for better learning
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Proven results
Pedagogy
