Supplementary Material for Neuroinstructional Design: Advancing an Integrated Theoretical Framework for Online Higher Education. A Comprehensive Theoretical Review.

This dataset serves as the Supplementary Material for the article titled "Neuroinstructional Design: Advancing an Integrated Theoretical Framework for Online Higher Education. A Comprehensive Theoretical Review," which was submitted to a specific Journal. This repository ensures transparency, reproducibility, and rigorous methodological tracking of the Integrative Theoretical Review presented in the primary manuscript. The dataset contains the following three files: Supplementary Material S1.pdf (Methodological Protocols and Audit Trail): This document provides an extended description of the methodological phases, detailing the harmonization procedure, the Cluster Validation Protocol via Falsification, and the Tripartite Completion Protocol. It offers the complete qualitative framework used to synthesize the five seminal theories: Brain-Based Learning (BBL), Cognitive Load Theory (CLT), Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML), and the TPACK model. Supplementary Material S2.xlsx (Completed Coding Record - Deductive + Inductive): A comprehensive spreadsheet containing the initial inventory and raw data extraction. It details the 69 original categories extracted from the seminal works, the deduplication process resulting in 37 unique concepts, and the final conceptual affinity analysis (clustering) that yielded the eight harmonized themes. Supplementary Material S3.xlsx (Convergence Matrix): This analytical matrix represents the synthesis phase of the research. It structures the intersections, complementarities, and theoretical gaps among the analyzed theories across the eight harmonized themes, serving as the foundational evidence for the proposed principles of Instructional Neurodesign.