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Can learning theories lead to better elearning content? 

Creativ Technologies

Once learning theories are applied, the companies can cater to individual learning styles and ensure higher retention. First is the behaviorism learning theory , in which the students/employees can be motivated to learn by influencing their behavior. There might be others who want to go through written manuals.

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#TwistedTrope 23: Dale's crappy cone

Learning with e's

This is similar to believing in learning styles , unicorns and politicians who tell the truth. Next time: 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy Previous posts in the #TwistedTropes series 1. Today in the United Kingdom, Dale's crappy cone of experience is so popular it has multiplied and is seen everywhere on the roads.

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(re)Designing learning in a digital world

Learning with e's

Yesterday's post will give you some clues about my views of learning style theory, but I also challenged a number of 'digital age' theories, including Marc Prensky's notorious Digital Natives and Immigrants theory, Wim Veen and Ben Vrakking's rather more insidious Homo Zappiens model, and Don Tapscott and Anthony William's Net Generation theory.

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Clark is not Keen

Learning with e's

He began by debunking many of the established and commonly accepted learning theories espoused by the likes of Benjamin Bloom (Taxonomy), Robert Gagne (Stages model) and Abraham Maslow (Hierarchy of needs). Glib, perhaps, but also inherently true when faced with the oversimplification of Maslow's model. get a grip, Andrew!'

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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I argued that training is mired in old, faddish theory; Bloom, Gagne, Maslow, Kirkpatrick – train the trainer courses are still full of old behaviourist theory (killed stone dead by Chomsky in 1959) trapping us in 50 year old theories that holds the industry back.

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Role of Nursing Second Semester

ProProfs

id="" value="" disabled="disabled" />--> Maslow. id="" value="" disabled="disabled" />--> Maslow. Match the following learning styles: A. Learns by seeing new ideas. Auditory learning. Visual learning. Kinesthetic learning. Learns by doing or manipulating new info. Select a Match.

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