This is not my official response to this week's module, just something I wanted to write in hopes someone with some ideas or knowledge might comment.
Page five of Marsh and Butler (2011) explains the theory of desirable difficulties (Bjork et al.). Simply stated, making your brain work harder to retrieve information in the short term may boost long term storage potential. The example described in the article is waiting a bit longer to recall flash card information rather than just a few seconds or so.
However, I wonder if this could be applied to other similar exercises. Obviously, we need to make different types of connections to information in order to enhance processing. but I wonder in what ways might we also make learning more challenging in the short term to produce better outcomes in the long term. What strategies has this course employed in order to exemplify this concept?
I hope the lack of comments doesn't mean folks don't find the course challenging. :)
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