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Tesler's Law And Learning Complexity, Richard D. Busby

Publications & Research

Tesler’s Law is an idea that complexity is conserved in a given situation. For example, an easy to use application (simple user experience) means that the complexity is transferred to the underlying code and network infrastructure.

References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_conservation_of_complexity

Complexity Law

Tesler’s Law has implications to learning design. This article identifies five.

Managing Scarce Resources In Training Projects, Richard D. Busby, James J. Goldsmith

Publications & Research

Every training organization has a limited amount of people, time and/or money available to complete a project, and this limited resource availability undoubtedly will affect the scope and success of projects the organization undertakes. Busby and Goldsmith discuss the knowledge and skills thing in the instructional design field will need to successfully address these circumstances. The authors begin the chapter by defining what they mean by "resources" and "resource scarcity," and then go on to describe how resource availability and the scope of a project affect one another. They then discuss such basic economic concepts as supply and demand and …