E-Learning Provocateur

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? Where do you start?

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 3, 2023

Then an article by Eikris Biala caught my eye: What’s more important than learning theory? Eikris goes on to provide advice on how to overcome this self-imposition, which I would supplement with: Give it a go. It could be the lack of belief we have in our own abilities.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MARCH 16, 2009

Even in the e‑learning space, online courses are typically linear, virtual classes frequently replicate their bricks-and-mortar antecedents, while podcasts, of course, are quintessentially instructivist. Why, in the midst of ever-advancing learning theory and progressive instructional design, does such rampant instructivism persist?

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E-Learning Provocateur

DECEMBER 28, 2008

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. Learning in the digital age. Siemens bills connectivism as “a learning theory for the digital age&#.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

To gain insight on how we learn in the real world, he’s reaching out to L&D professionals, CEOs, entrepreneurs, actors and artists who have mastered complex skills, with the aim of uncovering our “learning secrets” Arun asks 4 specific questions and my answers are as follows… Q1.

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E-Learning Provocateur

APRIL 5, 2021

That makes heutagogy a subset of andragogy, but whereas the latter will have us lead the learners by pitching problems to them, hosting Socratic discussions with them and perhaps curating content for them, the former is more about providing them with the tools and capabilities that enable them to lead their own learning journeys.

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E-Learning Provocateur

AUGUST 9, 2010

Provide continual instructions. My point is: while the nature of the content may dictate the dominant teaching style, that doesn’t mean you can’t accommodate apparently incompatible learning styles. Tags: engagement learning styles auditory kinaesthetic kinesthetic learning theory VAK VARK visual.

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