https://learning-theories.org/ 2026-04-23T15:07:53+0000 https://learning-theories.org/ https://learning-theories.org/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:assimilation_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Assimilation Theory General Assimilation theory (sometimes referred to as subsumption theory or theory of advance organizers) is one of the cognitivist learning theories developed by an American educational psychologist David Ausubel during the 1960s. Ausubel was a cognitivist inspired by works of text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:clasicall_conditioning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Classical conditioning General Classical conditioning (sometimes also known as Pavlov conditioning, respondent conditioning or Pavlovian reinforcement) is an behaviorist learning theory introduced in the first decade of the 20th century by the Russian physiologist text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:cognitive_load_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Cognitive Load Theory General Cognitive load theory is a cognitivist learning theory introduced in mid-1980s by John Sweller, an Australian educational psychologist. The key aspect of this theory is the attention paid to the human cognitive architecture: characteristics and relations between long-term memory and working memory, and text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:cognitive_theory_of_multimedia_learning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning General Cognitive theory of multimedia learning is one of the cognitivist learning theories introduced by an American psychology professor Richard Mayer in the 1990s. This theory is a sub-theory of John Sweller's cognitive load theory applied especially for multimedia learning, and therefore has many similarities with it. Basic assumption of Mayer's theory is that the text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:communities_of_practice&rev=1687190613&do=diff Communities of Practice General The term “community of practice” was coined in 1991 by Etienne Wenger and Jean Lave during their study of cognitive apprenticeship learning model. Communities of practice are * “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:conditions_of_learning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Gagné, R. M. The conditions of learning and theory of instruction (1st ed.). New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965. text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:connectionism&rev=1687190613&do=diff Connectionism General Connectionism, today defined as an approach in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, cognitive science and philosophy of mind which models mental or behavioral phenomena with networks of simple units, is not a theory in frames of text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:contiguity_theory_and_one_trial_learning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Contiguity Theory and One Trial Learning General Contiguity theory or law of contiguity and one trial learning are ideas introduced in 1920s by American philosopher, mathematician and psychologist Edwin Guthrie in collaboration with Stevenson Smith. Law of contiguity states that a text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:drive_reduction_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Drive Reduction Theory General Drive reduction theory was introduced in 1930s by an eminent American psychologist Clark Hull, whose works were influenced by other behaviorists like Ivan Pavlov, Edward Thorndike and Edward Tolman, but also by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. Hull's theory was at the time very influential. As a general learning theory it tried to explain text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:dual_coding_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Dual Coding Theory General Dual coding is a theory of cognition introduced by Allan Paivio in late 1960s. This theory suggests that there are two distinct subsystems contributing to cognition: one is specialized for language and verbal information, and the other text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:experiential_learning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Kolb, D. A. Individual learning styles and the learning process. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971. text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:gestalt_psychology&rev=1687190613&do=diff Gestalt Psychology General Gestalt psychology was first introduced in 1912 by Max Wertheimer, a German psychologist, when he published a paper on optical illusion called apparent motion. In the paper he analyzed the illusion occurring when a series of static images is perceived as movement, just like films. The assumption that text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:list&rev=1687190613&do=diff * Assimilation Theory - David Ausubel (1918 - 2008) * Case-Based Learning * Clasicall Conditioning - Ivan Pavlov (1849 - 1936) * Cognitive Apprenticeship - Allan Collins * Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) - John Sweller * Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) - Richard Mayer * Communities of Practice - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger * Component Display Theory - Dave Merrill * Concept Mapping - Joseph Novak * Conditions of Learning - Robert Gagné (1916 - 2002) * Cone of Expe… text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:operant_conditioning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Operant conditioning General Operant conditioning, sometimes also known as Skinnerian conditioning or radical behaviorism is a behaviorist learning approach similar to classical conditioning, mostly influenced by early theoretical and experimental works of American psychologist Burrhus Frederic Skinner from the 1950s. Main difference between those two theories is that text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:schema_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Schema Theory General Concept of schema theory, one of the cognitivist learning theories, was firstly introduced in 1932 through the work of British psychologist Sir Frederic Bartlett (some suggest it was first introduced in 1926 by Jean Piaget) and was further developed mostly in 1970s by American educational psychologist text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:script_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Script Theory General Script theory was first introduced and presented by Silvan Tomkins in 1954 as an extension of his affect theory, but was further developed in late 1970s by Roger Schank. Script theory is an extension of text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:sign_learning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Ahmad, Aneeq. Principles of Learning. Chapter 12: Edward C. Tolman. Retrieved August 24, 2011. text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:situated_learning&rev=1687190613&do=diff Situated Learning General Situated learning or situated cognition is a learning theory developed in the late 1980s by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger and soon expanded by John Seely Brown and his colleagues. Situated learning theory is based on the assumption that knowledge should be presented in authentic context that involves its application text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:social_cognitive_learning_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Social Cognitive Theory General Social cognitive theory, firstly known as social learning theory, was introduced in 1960s by a Canadian psychologist Albert Bandura and can in short be described in his own words: * “Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:social_development_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Social Development Theory General Social development theory was introduced in 1920s by Lev Vygotsky, whose theory is according to some the origin of social constructivism. This theory, sometimes also called cultural-history theory gives a framework for cognitive development in children and argues that the text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:stage_theory_of_cognitive_development&rev=1687190613&do=diff Stage Theory of Cognitive Development General Stage theory of cognitive development (also known as developmental stage theory or genetic epistemology ) was introduced by Swiss child psychologist text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:stimulus_sampling_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Stimulus Sampling Theory General Stimulus sampling theory was developed in 1950s by American psychologist William Estes influenced by works of Edwin Gurthie and his contiguity theory and one trial learning. Estes' theory suggests that a particular stimulus-response association is learned in a single trial, but the overall text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:the_keller_plan&rev=1687190613&do=diff The Keller Plan General The Keller Plan (also called The Personalized System of Instruction) is an instructional method introduced by Fred Keller, J. Gilmour Sherman, and several other researchers in the 1960s. This individualized learning method was oriented on improvement of high school learning. text/html 2023-06-19T16:03:33+0000 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://learning-theories.org/doku.php?id=learning_theories:transformatve_learning_theory&rev=1687190613&do=diff Transformative Learning Theory General Transformative learning theory is a humanist learning theory introduced by Jack Mezirow in 1981. This theory does not address general aspects of learning, but rather transformative learning in adults: the learning that strongly influences learner