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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?

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Scenario Based Learning for Healthcare Professionals

Origin Learning

Scenario based learning is a practical approach to learning where in students develop problem solving skills by being exposed to ‘problems’ or ‘cases’ that are replicas of actual scenarios that they may face at work. Integrating e-learning and m-learning.

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Social Learning: How to Build Conversations into Your eLearning Courses

Mindflash

You can build social interactions into your eLearning courses by integrating Yammer with Mindflash. We all know from experience that we learn in many different ways and one of those ways is through interacting with people. That is the bad news about most eLearning. . eLearning Helps Deliver New Content.

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Improving Professional Learning: 12 Strategies to Enhance Performance

Web Courseworks

As could probably be deduced from its subtitle, Improving Professional Learning is first and foremost an immediately practical book. That Knox practices what he preaches is evident in the very structure of his book, which is built upon the parameters of adult learning theory.

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10 free social learning platforms

Ed App

Social learning is the idea that people learn naturally in groups. Concepts such as the community of practice espouse that learning occurs as individuals in any endeavor participate in their task with peers and a competent teacher. Another cohesive social learning platform is EdApp.

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How To Create an Interactive Learning School and Engage Your Learners

learnWorlds

“In the social learning system, new patterns of behavior can be acquired through direct experience or by observing the behavior of others.”, Social Learning Theory, Bandura A., How To Create an Interactive Learning School and Engage Your Learners. An Ecology of Learning. 3 Build-in Community.

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Shifting sands

Learning with e's

Technology is one of the major drivers of change in our society , and it is easy to see where this is being integrated into schools, colleges and universities. Mostly it is integrated into classrooms, but it is largely left out of most curricula. Most of this activity is self organised.