Investigation on the Effect of Instructional Designs for Human Cognition: A Case Study of Sri Lankan University Education

Abstract

Instructional designs are now popular in the education sector. In Sri Lanka, from Grade 5 to University education there are number of computerized instructional designs implemented for the student community. It is vital to think about whether our student community acquires the exact benefit from using these instructional designs offered within their education programs. Our research has been sparked by the low usage of Digital Instructional Designs in university education. This research intended to investigate effect on human cognition when using digital Instructional Designs. For this investigation we have conducted a survey over 100 undergraduates and 50 academics. These samples were chosen from six state universities and six private educational institutes in Sri Lanka. The survey results show that there is no significant difference among state university population and Private educational institute population in replying for the surveyed questions. As per the results it is evident that the users are reluctant to use the digitally created instructional designs due to the mental effort that they have to put on the use of the design. Also the results draw out an unrecognized relationship among the low usage and the mental models of the users which directly deals with the interfaces of the instructional designs.