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 ===== Learning paradigms ===== ===== Learning paradigms =====
  
-Learning theories are usually divided into several paradigms which represent different perspectives on the learning process. Theories within the same paradigm share the same point of view. Currently, the most accepted learning paradigms are behaviorism,​ cognitivism,​ constructivism,​ connectivism,​ social learning and humanism but there are others as well.+Learning theories are usually divided into several ​[[glossary#​paradigm|paradigms]] which represent different perspectives on the learning process. ​[[glossary#​theory|Theories]] within the same paradigm share the same point of view. Currently, the most commonly ​accepted learning paradigms are behaviorism,​ cognitivism,​ constructivism,​ connectivism,​ social learning and humanism but there are others as well.
  
-Here we will refer to the following ​learning paradigms and related learning theories:+Here we will refer to named learning paradigms and their related learning ​and instructional design ​theories. A brief overview of the paradigms follows, and more information can be obtained by clicking on each paradigm name. 
  
-  * [[Behaviorism]] +  * [[Behaviorism]]: 
-  [[Cognitivism]] +    Time line: Since 1910s 
-  [[Humanism]] +    What is learning: Development of desired behavior 
-  * [[Constructivism]] +    Control locus: Environment 
-  * [[Connectivism]] +    * Learner role: Passive 
-  * [[Other Learning Theories]]+    * Learning process: Support of desired or punishing undesired behavior 
 +    * Critics: Ignores learner and his mental processes, depends exclusively on overt behavior 
 +    * Authors: ​[[http://​www.ivanpavlov.com/​|Ivan Pavlov]][[http://​www.bfskinner.org/​BFSkinner/​AboutSkinner.html|Burrhus Skinner]][[http://​www.muskingum.edu/​~psych/​psycweb/​history/​watson.htm|John Watson]]
  
 +  * [[Social Learning]]:
 +    * Time line: Since 1950s
 +    * What is learning: Acquisition of new models of behavior or social competences ​
 +    * Control locus: Split between both learner and environment (//​reciprocal determinism//​)
 +    * Learner role: Acquisition and interpretation of new knowledge through social interaction
 +    * Learning process: Prerequisite for meaningful learning is learners engagement in social activities
 +    * Critics: Offers no insight into complex cognitive processes (later improved by social/​cognitive theory)
 +    * Authors: [[http://​psych.fullerton.edu/​jmearns/​rotter.htm|Julian Rotter]], [[http://​en.wikipedia.org/​wiki/​Albert_Bandura|Albert Bandura]] ​
  
 +  * [[Cognitivism]]:​
 +    * Time line: Since 1960s
 +    * What is learning: Acquisition of new knowledge and developing adequate mental constructions
 +    * Control locus: Learner
 +    * Learner role: Active and central to the process, he learns objective knowledge from external world
 +    * Learning process: An active process of acquiring and processing new information using prior knowledge and experience
 +    * Critics: Views knowledge as objective and external to the learner
 +    * Authors: [[http://​education.arts.unsw.edu.au/​staff/​john-sweller-726.html|John Sweller]], [[http://​www.psych.ucsb.edu/​people/​faculty/​mayer/​index.php|Richard Meyer]], [[http://​www.davidausubel.org/​|David Ausbel]] ​
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 +  * [[Humanism]]:​
 +    * Time line: Since 1960s
 +    * What is learning: A mean which should help learner in self-actualization and development of personal potentials
 +    * Control locus: Learner
 +    * Learner role: Active and discovery
 +    * Learning process: Active learning through experience
 +    * Critics: More psychologically then experimentally grounded approach based on assumptions of free will and a system of human values which are generally believed to be true, yet impossible to prove and sometimes discredited through counterexamples. ​   ​
 +    * Authors: [[http://​www.nrogers.com/​carlrogers.html|Carl Rogers]], [[http://​webspace.ship.edu/​cgboer/​maslow.html|Abraham Maslow]]
 + 
 +  * [[Constructivism]]:​
 +    * Time line: Since 1990s
 +    * What is learning: Construction of new knowledge
 +    * Control locus: Learner
 +    * Learner role: Active, constructing his representation of knowledge using preferred learning styles
 +    * Learning process: Construction of subjective representation of knowledge based on prior knowledge and experience ​
 +    * Critics: There is little evidence for some constructivist views, and some even contradict known findings ​
 +    * Authors: John Dewey, Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Philip Candy, Driver, Merizow, Boud
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 +  * [[Connectivism]]:​
 +    * Time line: Since 1990s
 +    * What is learning:
 +    * Control locus: Split between both learner and environment
 +    * Learner role:
 +    * Learning process:
 +    * Critics:
 +    * Authors: ​
 +
 +  * [[Other Learning Theories]]:
 +    * 
 +    *  ​
 ===== Instructional design theories ===== ===== Instructional design theories =====
  
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-  * [[Component Display Theory]] (Merrill, cognitivist) 
-  * [[Elaboration Theory]] (Reigeluth, cognitivist) 
   * [[Cognitive Apprenticeship]]   * [[Cognitive Apprenticeship]]
  
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   * [[Gestalt Theory]] (Wertheimer)   * [[Gestalt Theory]] (Wertheimer)
-  * [[Mental Models ]] (Johnson-Laird) 
   * [[Theory of Cognitive Development]] (Piaget)   * [[Theory of Cognitive Development]] (Piaget)
-  * [[Communities of Practice]] (Lave and Wenger)+  * [[http://​www.ewenger.com/​theory/​|Communities of Practice]] (Lave and Wenger)
  
  
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