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Taxonomy of Learning Theories

E-Learning Provocateur

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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CCK09: Notes on Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge

Experiencing eLearning

Over the last few days I’ve been working through Stephen Downes’ paper Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge. He explicitly rejects the ‘isomorphic’ view of mental contents, and instead describes a network of distributed representations. I used Diigo to highlight and comment while reading.

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Daily Bookmarks 08/07/2008

Experiencing eLearning

Learn about the Darfur crisis, wolf ecology, or brain structures, or practice vocab. Kapp Notes: It is All Fun and Games…And Then Students Learn. tags: games , learning , education , k-12 , science , math. tags: connectivism , learning , networks , constructivism , context.

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Connectivism and the modern learner

E-Learning Provocateur

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. According to Chaos Theory , everything is connected, as illustrated so eloquently by the Butterfly Effect.

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Language Learning - an Exemplar of the 70:20:10 Approach?

Performance Learning Productivity

These also drive our learning patterns. And our ability to learn continuously the way we do has underpinned our success and our creativity throughout history. The Amazing Phenomenon of Language Learning Children usually learn to speak their parents’ or social group’s native language relatively easily.

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eLearning - Social Media - Mobile Learning

Tony Karrer

A List Apart: Articles: In Defense of Eye Candy , May 16, 2009 Facilitating Online | Centre for Educational Technology , May 19, 2009 Are Your E-Learning Courses Pushed or Pulled? , May 19, 2009 25 Tools: A Toolbox for Learning Professionals 2009 , May 19, 2009 Learning 2.0 Browse eLearning Content

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Designing for an uncertain world

Clark Quinn

And it’s beneath us to be trained to do something repetitive, to do something that doesn’t respect and take advantage of the great capacity of our brains. Instead, we should be doing pattern-matching and decision-making. Increasingly you have more complicated nuances that you can’t anticipate.

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