Opening champagne bottles is serious business. There’s the potential for eyes getting put out, and then the fun and games are over. After that the liability lawsuits start, and that’s no celebration. The champagne bottle legal department wants you to be safe. So here’s another instructional design spotted in the wild. It’s sort of a …

Multimedia designers in educational or training settings need to think about the most effective way to deliver content and increase retention.  Cognitive Load Theory posits that humans have a finite capacity for assimilating information.  Extraneous processing is the amount of “brain power” users must to devote to non essential processing – leaving less brain power for …