From Chaos to Order: Addressing Cognitive Overload in the Learning Journey

This book explores the multifaceted role cognitive load has on one’s learning journey, while introducing actionable approaches and resources to help bolster success. Multiple deadlines, competing responsibilities, an endless barrage of information, and constant stress: these situations are becoming increasingly common and intense for 21st-century learners.Even well-established needs, like finding and accessing relevant, credible information, take up more cognitive energy in this ever-changing information landscape.As pressure and complexity converge, learners are more likely to experience cognitive overload. Cognitive load refers to the amount of information an individual is able to retain in their working memory at one time.When cognitive load is surpassed, it can be much more difficult to process, encode, and retain new information.The purpose of this book is to help professionals transform passive efforts to support learners into more purposeful actions that address cognitive overlo