Design for How People Learn

Dirksen turns the science of learning, memory and attention into practical instructional design — how to make materials people actually absorb and keep. It threads the SDF's Humans component (how minds really work) through Procedures, in service of the Social-Responsibility motto: designing so more people can genuinely learn. Dirksen starts from the fact that in a fast-changing world almost everyone is continually learning, and often teaching too, whether through a presentation, documentation, a course or a website. The book sets out the key principles behind how people learn, remember and pay attention, and shows how to apply them to build materials that people actually absorb and retain, using accessible visual explanations, concrete methods and worked examples drawn from real instructional design problems.