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Steps to complex learning

The subject of this chapter, ten steps to complex learning (van Merrienboer & Kirschner,2007), was recently published as a practical and modified version of the four-component instructional design (4C-ID) model originally posited by van Merrienboer in 1997. These ten steps … Continue reading

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Keeping Students Motivated to Learn

Educators have lots of ideas about how to improve education, to better reach learners and to give students the skills they’ll need in college and beyond the classroom. But often those conversations remain between adults. The real test of any … Continue reading

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Blueprints for Complex Learning

Complex learning is always involved with achieving integrated sets of learning goals — multiple performance objectives. It has little to do with learning separate skills in isolation, but it is foremost dealing with learning to coordinate and integrate the separate … Continue reading

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