Education: Learning difficulties | The Economist - http://www.economist.com/node...
Oct 22, 2010
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"A PARADOX of education is that presenting information in a way that looks easy to learn often has the opposite effect. Numerous studies have demonstrated that when people are forced to think hard about what they are shown they remember it better, so it is worth looking at ways this can be done. And a piece of research about to be published in Cognition, by Daniel Oppenheimer, a psychologist at Princeton University, and his colleagues, suggests a simple one: make the text conveying the information harder to read."
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Obfuscation of learning material is the eLearning mantra of the future? I guess I should get on board this gravy train.
- Brian Sullivan