John Sweller

Education Sweller was educated at the University of Adelaide where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1969 followed by a PhD from the department of psychology in 1972. His doctoral research investigated effects of discrimination training on subsequent shift learning in animals.

Career and research Sweller has authored more than eighty academic publications, mainly reporting research on cognitive factors in instructional design, with specific emphasis on the instructional implications of working memory limitations and their consequences for instructional procedures. An autobiographical account of Sweller's intellectual development is available in the "Acquired Wisdom" section of Education Review.