Learning
Learning objectives
Summary
Why multimedia designers need to understand human learning
Using a theory of learning
Exercise
Types of learning outcome
Types of learning outcomes Robert Gagné
Types of learning outcomes Bloom’s taxonomy of learning objectives
Some models of learning Shuell 1992
Three main theories of learning
Behaviourism
Behaviourism - reinforcement
Behaviourism fails as a complete theory
Summary of behaviourism
Cognitive psychology
The cognitive model
A general model of the mind as an information processing model
Memory
Learning in the cognitive model
Processes in learning
Implications for learning
Phases of knowledge in learning
Summary of cognitivism
Humanist approaches to learning
Early humanist / constructivist theory: Jean Piaget
Adult learning: ‘Andragogy’ Knowles
Spectrum of theories of learning and teaching
Objectivism
Constructivism
Constructivist themes
Constructivist umbrella
Constructionism: Seymour Papert
PPT Slide
Implications of behaviourism for software design - Hannafin & Reiber
Implications of cognitivism
Implications of the humanist approach
References - theories of learning
Hannafin M & Reiber L. 1989 Psychological foundations of instructional design for emerging computer-based instructional technologies: Part I, Educational Technology research and Development 37, 91-101
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