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  • Interleaving and Collaborative Learning: A Remedy for Cognitive Overload?

    Interleaving and Collaborative Learning: A Remedy for Cognitive Overload?

    We know from decades of research that some learning strategies work much better than others. The learning sciences often cite three specific strategies that, when applied correctly, can result in huge learning benefits: spaced (or distributed practice), interleaving, and testing (or retrieval practice). Broadly speaking, these three techniques create what we call desirable difficulties: the…