![]() These experiences increase the undesirable difficulty of the course.ĭesirable 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. ![]() ![]() In practice, students often get lost in a tangle of hyperlinks, misinterpret directions, and can't find what they need without help. Ideally, students would be able to navigate these things to find the information they needed quickly and easily without any help from the instructor. This includes course websites, syllabi, and assignments. 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. ![]() Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition), by Steve Krug. ![]()
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