Learning Theories Table

Comparing Learning Theories

Rebecca Mielke

IDT100x: Learning Theories

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Philosophical Origins

Instructional Strategies

Key players

Best Uses

Theory

• Positive/negative reinforcement
• NOT punishment
• Regular reviews
• Assessment: exam

Scientific response to introspective psychology, focus on what is observable

• Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936)
• B.F. Skinner (1904-90)

Student demonstrates correct responses to specific stimuli

When there is a correct response or easily memorized material

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Behaviorism

• Albert Bandura (b. 1925)
• John Sweller (b. 1946)

• Grab students' attention
• Social learning
• Teach in chunks
• Consider reasoning

Student exercises agency in organizing and interpreting information

Sought to understand the mental processes between stimuli and response

Higher-level thinking and learning how to learn

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Cognitivism

• Start by assessing current knowledge
• Field work
• Discussion
• Assessment enhances learning

Rejects rote memorization of given knowledge for real-world activities, creativity, and collaboration

• Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
• Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)

Students construct their own knowledge

When the goal is application of advanced or complex knowledge

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Constructivism

• Allow learners to influence the plan
• Problem-based
• Collaboration
• Integrate existing knowledge

Assumptions about ways in which the needs of adult learners differ from traditional learning

Formal and informal learning for adults

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Adult learners are motivated to learn when it is relevant

Andragogy

Malcolm Knowles (1913-1997)

Connectivism

Internet

A Learning Model

...the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consist of the ability to construct and traverse those networks.

Peers

A.I.

How to use available knowledge?

Emerging knowledge

Stephen Downes

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