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Welcome to the CAFÉ.

The Cognitive Assistance Factor Evaluation (CAFE) Toolkit contains tools to help educators design or re-design their courses or learning materials using Cognitive Load Theory and what we know about human cognitive architecture.

The primary purpose of this site is to provide user-friendly feedback on how to improve materials - or indeed an entire course - that may be "troublesome". Troublesome materials and courses are those where many students deliver poor performance. In these courses, students are often relatively novice or the content is relatively difficult, or both. In these situations students can still learn the content but there needs to be a focus on avoiding cognitive overload in students.

To interact with this site (comment on content, for example) you will need to register. Registration is free!
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Evaluate a course

Use CLT to assess your course* as a whole - structure, sequencing and choice of materials. The course tool will also provide feedback on aspects of your course that may be improved.
* a unit of study usually with an exam at the end.

Case Studies
Case Studies

This is a new section of the site, to be launched at the Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2017) in Geelong, February 2017. This facility will not only outline case studies of successful applications of Cognitive Load Theory but will also offer discussion functionality.

 

 

  

 

CAFE International

This is a link to the CAFE International page.

Evaluate a student resource
Evaluate a student resource

Use the instructional design effects derived from CLT to evaluate the extent to which a particular student resource follows these instructional design principles. Feedback and suggestions are given.
 

Plan the measures for a case study

Plan case study measures

New tool that helps educators to plan the measures that they will use to determine the effectiveness of their cognitive load theory interventions. This decision tool will ask questions and suggest measures to help to plan a case study.


About Cognitive Load Theory

An information library about Cognitive Load Theory, including the foundational theory, as well as information about each of the effects and implications for instructional design.​
 

CAFE blog
The CAFÉ Blog

Wondering what software we used to do ... that? Or are you wondering what we are doing next? Keep connected by reading our CAFE blog.​

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