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Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Academia is teeming with learning theories. It can be quite a challenge for the modern learning professional to identify an appropriate learning theory, draw practical ideas from it, and apply it to their daily work. Which theory do you choose? How does it relate to other theories? Schema theories .
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Cognitive learning theory focuses on learning with understanding (as opposed to memorizing fact) by teaching the underlying concepts and meanings–and thereby increasing the depth of processing. Learning with understanding means we understand the underlying core concepts, the meaning behind the facts. 2000). 2000).
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Thursday, July 1, 2010
There's been a lot of discussion around cognitive theory and "how the brain learns." But even with all of that discussion there's a question of whether people are really making changes to the design of their online learning. So, it should look like: Tony Karrer - e-Learning 2.0 Load Time , October 9, 2009 Aging.
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Andrew Churches is curriculum manager of computer studies and teaching and Learning technologies at the Kristin school in Albany Auckland, New Zeeland. What makes his wiki so interesting is that it focuses on the core of TELearning, the learning itself. mobile learning eLearning concerns So where does Andrew’s wiki come in?
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Do people learn from them? Have you learned anything from the books you’ve read? I’ve learned from all of these different types of books, and I’ll go out on a limb here and say that you have, too. Did that mean I didn’t learn something? learned anyway. We make them available because we can.
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Why (Justification): When I say: “It is very important to design your course material to facilitate learning with understanding.” Hopefully you deeply processed and understood the sentence and every associated concept you know has just been activated in your brain, this is referred to as associative priming. by Reni Gorman. References.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
One of her readers, Plain_Gillian, said she was struggling to verbalize the difference between the two learning theories. think the table comparing learning theories to connectivism is a good way to start. The human brain is designed to look for patterns, and that’s a big part of connectivist theory.
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Saturday, December 27, 2008
Soon after, I attended a presentation about m-learning by Jan Herrington, in which she too mentioned connectivism. So after several hours of unenlightened googling, I decided to bite the bullet, go back to first principles and read George Siemens’ seminal paper, Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age.
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Sunday, March 21, 2010
2000) “A key finding in the learning and transfer literature is that organizing information into a conceptual framework allows for greater “transfer”; that is, it allows the student to apply what was learned in new situations and to learn related information more quickly.” How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
It's time for some whole brain thinking. More learning and development I have been reading with interest Stephen Downes' analysis of Kirschner, Sweller and Clark's paper Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work. have myself commented on this paper back in June of last year under the heading A Challenge to Constructivism.
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