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Purpose The purpose of this course is to comprehensively examine the cognitive information processing system and its implications for instructional design. The course will review of literature from cognitive and educational psychology and related works in instructional design and development. Specifically, the topic areas of working memory, cognitive load theory, and deepening complexity models of instructional design will be examined. Students ’ final work products for the course will be instructional design documents with academic footnoting. Objectives Students in this course will learn to: 1. Identify and accurately characterize the functions of the major components of the cognitive information processing system. 2. Explain the dynamic nature of working memory, the effects of prior knowledge, and its implications for instruction as described by cognitive load theory. 3. Explain the major premises of and apply whole-task/deepening complexity models of instructional design to individual learning objectives