Messy bulletin board of notes with quote" If readers must spend effort interpreting structure or decoding visuals, their attention shifts toward navigation rather than engaging with the ideas themselves.”

Cognitive Load Is Your Invisible Barrier  

Clarity isn’t just about word choice or sentence length. Have you ever read a piece of scholarship and found yourself struggling to understand it, not for the content or ideas themselves, but because the layout was hard to follow? This extra effort adds to something called our cognitive load, or…

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Communicating Your SoTL Through Content Design 

When we think of the heart of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), we often focus on the research itself like the insights into how people learn, the data that challenges old assumptions, and the new approaches to teaching. While these are…