E-Learning Theories

Traits

Learning involves use of memory, motivation, and thinking.

Reflection plays an important role.

Learning is internal

Amount learned depends on the learning process

Theorists

Craik

Lockhart

Ausbel

Tuluing

Terms

Duel-Coding Theory - information recieved in different modes will be processed better than that presented in a single mode.

Keller's ARCS Model - Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction

Metacognition - learner's ability to be aware of his or her cognitive abilities and use them to learn.

Learning Styles - how a learner percieves, interacts with, and responds to the learning environment; measures individual differences.

Cognitive Style - a learner's preferred way of processing information.

Traits

integration of principals explored by chaos, network, complexity and self-organization

Learning is not under the control of the learner

What must be learned is determined by others and continually changing.

Learners have to unlearn what they have learned in the past and learn to relearn and evaluate new information

Theorist

Sieman

Traits

Changed observable behavior

Change indicates mastery

Theorists

Thorndike

Pavlov

Skinner

Traits

Learn by observing, processing and interpretation

Information and world are interpretted by personal reality of learner

personlize information into peronsal knowledge

Theorist

Cooper

Wilson

Terms

Motivational Theory - uses extrinsic motivational strategies

Situated Learning - learning is contexual

Transformative Learning - "reflectively transforming the beliefs, attitudes, opinions, and emotional reactions that constitue our meaning, schemes or transforming our learning perspectives.

Interaction - through interaction with instructors, classmates, community and content, learners should construct their own knowledge.