When learners experience high cognitive load, they may give up or fail to comprehend. Here are six strategies to reduce cognitive load.

It’s not easy to be creative on demand. If you have creative blocks, you can overcome them once you recognize them.

How can you make animations for learning that are effective? Why do so many animations fail to yield results? Find the answers here.

By understanding a learner’s mental models, we can improve our user interfaces, instructional interventions and overall learning experiences.

People use both top-down processing and bottom-up processing as they are learning. Here’s how to design for both.

Learning designers want to increase remembering and prevent forgetting. Here’s what you should know about what causes us to forget.

If it is difficult to transfer tacit knowledge through language, then how can it be passed on? Here are six proven strategies for inferring and acquiring tacit knowledge.

Understanding expert thinking helps us design training for both experts and novices. Learn about the differences by understanding the cognitive psychology of expertise.

How to infuse persuasive messages into learning experiences when you need to convince the target audience to change behaviors or attitudes.

These elaboration strategies provide ways to connect new learning to prior knowledge in order to make learning meaningful.