From the Coleface

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I don’t want “to understand” in my learning objectives

From the Coleface

Much of the literature about learning objectives talks about Bloom’s taxonomy. I’ll sidestep talking about its pros and cons in corporate learning, but the cognitive domain level 2 talks about comprehension/understanding. So I wrote this to help you if you get into the same debate.

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The science of using audio in e-learning

From the Coleface

Cognitive Load Theory gives us some insights, but it’s not really answering the questions at the level of granularity that is really useful to an instructional designer e.g. if I add W type of audio to X type of screen with Y type of audience learning Z type of content, what should I expect the impact on recall/ behaviour change to be?

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