Instructional Design
IDEAS FOR IMPROVING COGNITIVE ENGAGEMENT IN YOUR COURSES
In this article, we discuss the use of decision-making scenarios as the most important strategy to engage learners cognitively at a deeper level. It outlines strategies to help create effective scenarios, including making sure they reflect real-world challenges, using plausible incorrect answer choices, providing realistic consequences of decisions made and detailed feedback on why choices were correct or incorrect. The article also explains the importance of creating relatable characters and finding the right level of complexity in scenarios to challenge learners but not frustrate them.