How can teachers reduce cognitive load with one easy step?
Online teaching drastically increases cognitive load because learners must simultaneously encode information displayed on the screen, understand it and integrate it to the information that was previously displayed.
An interesting paper published by the University of Montpellier, France, (Aalioui et al, 2022) discusses cognitive load during the learning task, identifying tools that decrease load during video teaching.
A particular focus of the research look to segment videos with pauses and inducing joint
