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Overview

Alexander Renkl is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with specific focus on developmental and educational psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, education, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.

Their work explores several main topics, including visual and cognitive learning processes, innovative teaching and learning methods, educational strategies and epistemologies, science education and pedagogy, memory processes and influences, intelligent tutoring systems and adaptive learning, as well as education and critical thinking development.

Renkl has published numerous articles across a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include Unterrichtswissenschaft, Educational Psychology Review, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Instructional Science, and Frontiers in Education.

Selected recent papers by Alexander Renkl include:

  • The Self-Regulation-View in Writing-to-Learn: Using Journal Writing to Optimize Cognitive Load in Self-Regulated Learning, 2020, Educational Psychology Review
  • Self-management as a Bridge Between Cognitive Load and Self-regulated Learning: the Illustrative Case of Seductive Details, 2020, Educational Psychology Review
  • Learning-by-Teaching Without Audience Presence or Interaction: When and Why Does it Work?, 2021, Educational Psychology Review
  • When and why does emotional design foster learning? Evidence for situational interest as a mediator of increased persistence, 2020, Journal of Computer Assisted Learning
  • Improving Lifelong Learning by Fostering Students' Learning Strategies at University, 2020, Psychology Learning & Teaching

Renkl frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Tino Endres, Alexander Eitel, Werner Rieß, Inga Glogger-Frey, and Julian Roelle.

Best Publications

  • Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design: Recent Developments

    Fred Paas;Alexander Renkl;John Sweller

  • Learning from Examples: Instructional Principles from the Worked Examples Research:

    Robert K. Atkinson;Sharon J. Derry;Alexander Renkl;Donald Wortham

  • Cognitive Load Theory: Instructional Implications of the Interaction between Information Structures and Cognitive Architecture

    Fred Paas;Alexander Renkl;John Sweller

  • Learning from Worked‐Out Examples: A Study on Individual Differences

    Alexander Renkl

  • Structuring the Transition From Example Study to Problem Solving in Cognitive Skill Acquisition: A Cognitive Load Perspective

    Alexander Renkl;Robert K. Atkinson

  • Träges Wissen: Die "unerklärliche" Kluft zwischen Wissen und Handeln

    Alexander Renkl

  • Worked-out examples: instructional explanations support learning by self- explanations

    A Renkl

  • Transitioning From Studying Examples to Solving Problems: Effects of Self-Explanation Prompts and Fading Worked-Out Steps.

    Robert K. Atkinson;Alexander Renkl;Mary Margaret Merrill

  • Learning from worked-out examples: The effects of example variability and elicited self-explanations

    Alexander Renkl;Robin Stark;Hans Gruber;Heinz Mandl

  • Situiertes Lernen in multimedialen Lernumgebungen

    Heinz Mandl;Hans Gruber;Alexander Renkl

  • Toward an Instructionally Oriented Theory of Example-Based Learning.

    Alexander Renkl

  • From Example Study to Problem Solving: Smooth Transitions Help Learning

    Alexander Renkl;Robert K. Atkinson;Uwe H. Maier;Richard Staley

  • Inert knowledge: Analyses and remedies

    Alexander Renkl;Heinz Mandl;Hans Gruber

  • Do learning protocols support learning strategies and outcomes? The role of cognitive and metacognitive prompts

    Kirsten Berthold;Matthias Nückles;Alexander Renkl

  • Finding and fixing errors in worked examples: Can this foster learning outcomes? ☆

    Cornelia S. Große;Alexander Renkl

  • Five research-based heuristics for using video in pre-service teacher education

    Geraldine Blomberg;Alexander Renkl;Miriam Gamoran Sherin;Hilda Borko

  • Was lernen wir in Schule und Hochschule: Träges Wissen?

    Hans Gruber;Heinz Mandl;Alexander Renkl

  • Instructional strategies for using video in teacher education

    Tina Seidel;Geraldine Blomberg;Alexander Renkl

  • How Fading Worked Solution Steps Works--A Cognitive Load Perspective.

    Alexander Renkl;Robert K. Atkinson;Cornelia S. Grosse

  • Understanding video as a tool for teacher education: investigating instructional strategies to promote reflection

    Geraldine Blomberg;Miriam Gamoran Sherin;Alexander Renkl;Inga Glogger

Frequent Co-Authors

Fred Paas
Fred Paas Erasmus University Rotterdam
John Sweller
John Sweller University of New South Wales
Tamara van Gog
Tamara van Gog Utrecht University
Katharina Scheiter
Katharina Scheiter University of Potsdam
Wolfgang Schneider
Wolfgang Schneider University of Würzburg
Slava Kalyuga
Slava Kalyuga University of New South Wales
Michael R. Waldmann
Michael R. Waldmann University of Göttingen
Kenneth A. Kiewra
Kenneth A. Kiewra University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Shana K. Carpenter
Shana K. Carpenter Oregon State University

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