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With the huge movement of courses to an online format in 2020 that is continuing into 2021, it's a good time to take a look at aspects of the course that are in digital format. This includes course websites, syllabi, and assignments. Ideally, students would be able to navigate these things to find the information they needed quickly and easily without any help from the instructor. In practice, students often get lost in a tangle of hyperlinks, misinterpret directions, and can't find what they need without help. These experiences increase the undesirable difficulty of the course. Desirable difficulties, a term coined by psychologist Robert Bjork (National Research Council, 1994), are anything that challenges the brain and leads to an increase in long-term retention of information. Undesirable difficulties, on the other hand, are things that take up cognitive space, but do not enhance learning. Undesirable difficulties, such as unclear instructions or a course site that is difficult to navigate, may actually decrease learning because 76

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Author

Joyner, Helen (author)

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences