Controlling split attention and redundancy in physical therapy instruction

Educational Technology Research and Development

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 379-399

  Pociask, Fredrick D ^a   Morrison, Gary R ^b  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive load; Instructional design; Learning; Message design

Indexed keywords

EID: 46049102812     PISSN: 10421629     EISSN: 15566501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11423-007-9062-5     Document Type: Article

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