Autor: John Sweller

Ruth Clark is a recognized specialist in instructionaldesign and technical training. She holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology from the University of Southern California. Prior to founding CLARK Training& Consulting, she served as training manager for Southern California Edison. Dr. Clark is a past president of the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI) and authorof the best-selling e-Learning and the Science of Instruction and Building Expertise, both of which werebestowed the Best Communication Award from ISPI. John Sweller is the founder of Cognitive Load Theory andit”s most ardent researcher and advocate. The Web of Sciencerecords that his work has been cited on over 1, 500 occasions –with a rapidly increasing citation rate. He has been published innearly 70 refereed journals and is the author of the seminal Instructional Design in Technical Areas. In recentyears he has further developed general cognitive theory in the hopethat this development can lead to further instructionalapplications. He has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia since 1993. He currently teaches at the School of Education at the University of New South Wales. He livesin Sydney, Australia. Frank Nguyen, currently the e-Learning Technology Managerfor the Intel e Business Training group, is responsible forproviding tools and processes to enable online learning for 100+training developers and 45, 000 employees worldwide. Prior to Intel, Frank worked as a systems engineer for a national computerdistributor and built automation systems for several Fortunate 500companies. Frank is currently a doctoral student in Educational Technology at Arizona State University focusing on theconvergence of e Learning and electronic performance support systems(EPSS).