University of New Mexico - Valencia Campus
Teaching & Learning Center
Learning Theories
By now, you should understand how to conduct a needs assessment and goal analysis, in order to determine the barrier to the optimum performance of your learner. Regardless of what kind of barrier you are dealing with, you, as the Instructional Designer, need to be able to put yourself in the learner's shoes. These three theories are used in the field of Instructional Design as guidelines for understanding how to develop instruction that will be most effective for the learner. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/courses/edtec540/Perspectives/Perspectives.html
Learn-a-tivity is the notion that individual and organizational effectiveness depends on learning better, faster, smarter and through the consistent application of learning, combined with creativity, flexibility, and paying close attention to the right things.
http://www.learnativity.com/learning.html
TIP is a tool intended to make learning and instructional theory more accessible to educators. The database contains brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. These theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts.
http://tip.psychology.org/
Describes Malcom Knowles' ideas about adult learning http://www.gwu.edu/~tip/knowles.html
Similarities and differences between child and adult learning http://www.infed.org/lifelonglearning/b-andra.htm
Dr. Kathie Nunley's website offers a collection of resources for educators about how people learn. She says her brains.org site is a "a PRACTICAL link between current psychological and neurological RESEARCH and EDUCATION." Visit the site and read multiple articles about students and learning at. http://www.brains.org/
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School by John D. Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking is offered in an online version by The National Research Council. http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/
That is contextual teaching and learning? US Department of Education and University of Wisconsin TeachNET website
http://www.cew.wisc.edu/teachnet/ctl/