By the same token, an image or picture that superimposes information on the physical world, placing it in context for us, reduces cognitive distance and minimizes cognitive load.
To facilitate an efficient homework planning strategy, scheduling software tools should take students' needs into consideration, in order to provide information that is useful for planning homework and that minimizes cognitive load.
The movie was designed to provide enough stimulation to improve compliance related to motion and wakefulness while minimizing cognitive load during the collection of functional imaging data.
Four principles of design were followed: employ reading gravity, minimize cognitive load, use pre-existing mental models, and select color to direct attention.
On the whole, this evidence suggests that capturing students' attention, fostering deep learning, and minimizing cognitive load leads to improved engagement, and ultimately better educational outcomes.
Several of the e-learning principles discussed in the introduction (Clark and Mayer 2011) serve to capture a student's focus, hold it, and minimize cognitive load (Chandler and Sweller 1991; van Merriënboer and Sweller 2005).
Thus, while the current study replicates several previous empirical findings (Doherty-Sneddon et al., 2012; Freeth et al., 2013; Fullwood & Doherty-Sneddon, 2006), it does not support the interpretation that gaze aversion reflects a functional process that serves to optimize (minimize) cognitive load.
Cognitive load theory states that well-designed learning material minimizes extraneous cognitive load and optimizes germane cognitive load within the thresholds of available cognitive resources.
Theoretically, presentation of information through multisensory representations that further incorporate innate modality-specific selective attention and perceptual grouping dimensions should minimize overall cognitive load by unconsciously reinforcing germane cognitive load.
So, like all important things, you want to minimize, not maximize, its cognitive load.
In this study, the extraneous cognitive load is minimized by avoiding temporal split attention with regard to supportive information (i.e., conceptual models or 'theory') and the germane cognitive load is optimized by using schematic representations of this information to direct learner's attention to concepts relevant for learning.
