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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 accepted learning paradigms are behaviorism,​ cognitivism,​ constructivism,​ connectivism 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 the following learning paradigms and related learning ​and instructional design ​theories:
  
   * [[Behaviorism]]   * [[Behaviorism]]
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   * [[Other Learning Theories]]   * [[Other Learning Theories]]
  
 +A more detailed description can be found by clicking on the name of any of given paradigms, and a brief explanation of each of them follows:
  
 +  * [[Behaviorism]]:​
 +    * Time line: Since 1910s
 +    * What is learning: Development of desired behavior
 +    * Control locus: Environment
 +    * Learner role: Passive
 +    * 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]]
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 +  * [[Cognitivism]]:​
 +    * Time line: Since 1960s
 +    * What is learning: Acquisition of new knowledge and developing adequate mental constructions
 +    * Learner role: Active and central to the process
 +    * 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 ​
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 +  * [[Humanism]]:​
 +    * Time line: 
 ===== 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)
   * [[http://​www.ewenger.com/​theory/​|Communities of Practice]] (Lave and Wenger)   * [[http://​www.ewenger.com/​theory/​|Communities of Practice]] (Lave and Wenger)
  
  
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