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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. | 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]]: | + | * [[learning_paradigms:Behaviorism]] |
- | * Time line: Since 1910s | + | * [[Cognitivism]] |
- | * What is learning: Development of desired behavior | + | * [[learning_paradigms:Humanism]] |
- | * Control locus: Environment | + | * [[learning_paradigms:Constructivism]] |
- | * Learner role: Passive | + | * [[learning_paradigms:Connectivism]] |
- | * 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]]: | + | [[learning_paradigms:paradigm_comparison|A brief comparison]] of main assumptions that underline this paradigms can be used to better understand their differences and similarities. |
- | * 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]] | + | |
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- | * [[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]] | + | |
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- | * [[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: [[http://wilderdom.com/experiential/JohnDeweyPhilosophyEducation.html|John Dewey]], [[http://www.piaget.org/aboutPiaget.html|Jean Piaget]], [[http://www.marxists.org/archive/vygotsky/|Lev Vygotsky]], [[http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/community-services/subgroups/information-literacy/events/lilac/lilac-2006/Documents/ProfessorPhilipCandy.pdf|Philip Candy]], [[http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/research/cssme/rosalind_driver.pdf|Rosalind Driver]] | + | |
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- | * [[Connectivism]]: | + | |
- | * Time line: Since 1990s | + | |
- | * What is learning: Process of network-forming | + | |
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- | * [[Other Learning Theories]]: | + | |
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- | ===== Instructional design theories ===== | + | |
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- | We will also refer to some instructional design principles: | + | |
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- | * [[Cognitive Apprenticeship]] | + | |
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Some theories that are not directly orientated on explaining of the learning process, but are also worth mentioning can be found here: | Some theories that are not directly orientated on explaining of the learning process, but are also worth mentioning can be found here: | ||
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* [[Gestalt Theory]] (Wertheimer) | * [[Gestalt Theory]] (Wertheimer) | ||
- | * [[Theory of Cognitive Development]] (Piaget) | ||
- | * [[http://www.ewenger.com/theory/|Communities of Practice]] (Lave and Wenger) | ||