Learning theories

https://www.innovativelearning.com/teaching/learning-theory.jpgLearning theories come from the study of”educational psychology” and attempt to describe how people learn. With a learning theory as a foundation, instruction can be structured around making learning most effective. There are several commonly excepted categories of learning theories:

Behaviorist Models

Brhaviorist theories are not concerned with the cognitive process but with changes in observable behavior (see behaviorism).

  • Behaviorist learning theory

 

Cognitivist Models

Cognitivist models attempt to make it easier for learning to take place based on what we know about how a learner to process information (see cognitivism).

  • Advanced Organizers (David Ausubel)
  • Cone of Experience (Edgar Dale)
  • Information Processing
  • Dual Coding Theory (Allan Paivio)
  • Concept Mapping (Joseph Novak)
  • Component Display Theory (Dave Merrill)
  • Elaboration Theory (Reigeluth, Merrill, Wilson and Spiller)
  • Scripts (Roger Schank)
  • Structural Learning (Scandura)

 

Constructivist Models

Constructivist Models attempt to describe how learners learn and thereby how to create effective instruction (see constructivism).

  • Action Research (Participatory Design Models)
  • Activity Theory (artifact-mediated and object-oriented action)
  • Anchored Instruction (John Bransford)
  • Andrgogy (Malcom Knowles)
  • Cognitive Apprenticeship (Collins, Brown and Newman)
  • Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Rand Spiro)
  • Generative Learning (Merlin C. Wittrock)
  • Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL)
  • CSILE Computer Supported Intentional Learning Environments (Scardamalia and Bereiter)
  • Conversation Theory (Gordon Pask)
  • Discovery Learning (Jerome Bruner)
  • Inquiry Teaching (Collins and Stevens)
  • Interpretation Construction (ICON) Design Model (Black and McClintock)
  • Mind Tools (David Jonassen)
  • Minimalist Model (John Carroll)
  • Montessori Education (Maria Montessori)
  • Problem-Based Learning
  • The Project Method (Kilpatrick and Dewey)
  • Play (AKA Serious Play)
  • Role Play (Ip, Linser, Janinski)
  • Goal Based Scenarios (Roger Schank)
  • Schema Theory
  • Situated Cognition
  • Social Learning Theory (Albert Bandura)
  • Structural Knowledge (David Jonassen)
  • Zone of Proximal Develomen