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4 Learning Theories Every Online Educator Should Know

LearnDash

Or do we just learn through raw mental power? During the twentieth century, four major learning theories emerged, and each has lessons that online educators can learn from to design better courses. Behaviorism: Learning is a product of stimulus and reinforcement. Let’s look at what they are.

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Cognitive Learning: How to Use It, Benefits and Examples

Academy of Mine

Cognitive Learning Theory is a useful theory for looking at education in a modern way, which focuses not just on the student’s ability to repeat the information they have been taught, but instead asks why and how a student was able to learn, and what their innate mental processes and previous life experiences had to do with that learning.

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The importance of Gagné’s Conditions of Learning Theory in corporate training

EduPivot Knowledge Center

As a result, any company that wants to remain competitive must prioritize employee learning, development, and growth. The conditions of learning theory, developed by American psychologist Robert Mills Gagné, provides a framework that companies can use when designing their learning and development programs.

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Social Learning For Leaders

Dashe & Thomson

Social learning requires constant awareness of your surroundings and your responses to the actions of yourself and others around you. Social learning first came about in the 1960’s when Albert Bandura defined a cognitive process which takes place within a social context. Leadership and Social Learning Theories.

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes. Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery.

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Unravelling The Relevance Of Social Cognitive Theory in Online Learning

ProProfs

Although, the situation is quite embarrassing but this proves an important point that we humans many times prefer to learn unfamiliar tasks based on ‘observation’. This leads us to the theory by psychologist Albert Bandura known as the ‘Social Cognitive Theory’. What is Social Cognitive Theory?

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Space invaders

E-Learning Provocateur

I consider the spacing effect an umbrella term describing the improved outcomes achieved by separating learning activity over time. And this makes sense to me, as the cognitive load is reduced in each session, and I presume the time intervals accommodate further cognitive processing that embeds the concepts deeper into long-term memory.

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