Title :
Cognitive Overload and Its Countermeasures from the Angle of Information Processing
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Foreign Languages, Zhejiang Normal Univ., Jinhua, China
Abstract :
The problems of cognitive overload have greatly influenced students´ learning in multimedia and Web-based environment. The main technological factors of cognitive overload are analyzed as following: hypertext structure of information and multi-task, disturbance of unnecessary information, interaction of auditory and visual information. Cognitive theory of multimedia learning provides the theoretical basis of cognitive overload, and it suggests that there are three kinds of cognitive load during learners´ information processing, which include cognitive load of essential processing, cognitive load of incidental processing and cognitive load of representational holding. Finally, several ways are put forward as the countermeasures to reduce the corresponding cognitive load.
Keywords :
Internet; computer aided instruction; multimedia computing; Web-based learning; auditory information; cognitive overload; hypertext structure; incidental processing; information processing; multimedia learning; representational holding; student learning; visual information; Animation; Auditory system; Cognition; Courseware; Educational institutions; Geometry; Information analysis; Information processing; Information technology; Videos; Web-based Learning; cognitive load; cognitive overload; information processing; information technology;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Information Technology Application, 2009. IITA 2009. Third International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Nanchang
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3859-4
DOI :
10.1109/IITA.2009.278
