Statement of the recommendation in everyday language: As an alternative to conventional procedures of teaching, primarily those which are based around providing a problem and teaching a means to answering it, instructional design can also be based off of using problems that the student doesn’t have to specifically “solve.” This technique can reduce the chances of overloading the student mentally and transfer the students attention to different elements of the problem. Such elements are more intertwined with the nature and essence of the problems at hand, which can lead to an alternative and sometimes altogether easier route for the student’s … Continue reading Reducing Goal-Specificity For Reducing Cognitive Load and Re-directing Attention to Schema Acquisition / Speedier Acquisition of Ability to Solve Relevant Problem