David Ausubel’s subsumption theory suggests a way of creating instructional material that helps learners organize their content in order to make it meaningful for transfer. He suggested the use of Advanced Organizers as tools that mentally help learners learn and retain knowledge, enabling them to combine new with already known information. Cognitivism

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