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Nine Ways to Reduce Cognitive Load in Multimedia Learning

Educational PsychologistPublished 1 January 2003
Richard E. Mayer, Roxana Moreno
Citations4,060
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SJR score5.79
SNIP6.42

TL;DR

The analysis shows that cognitive load is a central consideration in the design of multimedia instruction because it exceeds the learner's available cognitive capacity.

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PsychologySocial Sciences