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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Cognitive load and efficiency in learning -- The psychology of efficiency -- Use visuals and audio narration to exploit working memory resources -- Focus attention and avoid split attention -- Weed your training to manage limited working memory capacity -- Provide external memory support to reduce working memory load -- Use segmenting, sequencing, and learner pacing to impose content gradually -- Transition from worked examples to practice to impose mental work gradually -- Put working memory to work with germane load -- Accommodate differences in learner expertise -- Use rapid testing to adapt e-learning to learner expertise -- Applying cognitive load theory -- The evolution of cognitive load theory : a personal perspective / by John Sweller.