This online textbook is edited by Michael Orey of the Department of Educational Psychology and Instructional Technology at the University of Georgia. The text covers topics on how people learn and think as well as theories that focus on the learner and the role of instruction in changing a learner’s mind.
Table of Contents
- Learning and Cognitive Theories (Shorts)
- Information processing
- Piaget’s Constructivism
- Bloom’s Taxonomy
- Vygotsky’s constructivism
- Situated Cognition
- Social Constructivism
- Connectivism
- Learner-Centered Theories (Shorts)
- Motivation
- Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
- Teaching and Learning in Affective Domain
- Creativity
- Adult Learning
- Inquiry Strategies: Tasks
- Constructionism, Learning by Design, and Project Based Learning
- Problem Based Instruction
- I-Search
- Case-Based Learning
- Inquiry Strategies: Changing Learners’ Minds
- Conceptual Change
- Transformative Learning
- Tools for Teaching and Learning: Changing or Encouraging Human Behaviors
- Cognitive Apprenticeship
- Resource-Based Learning
- Experiential Learning
- Six C’s of motivation
- Behaviorism
- Tools for Teaching and Learning: Technology Tools
- Cognitive Tools
- Computer Mediated Instruction
- Socially Oriented Theories
- Cooperative Learning
- Learning Communities as an Instructional Model
- Direct Instruction Strategies
- Reciprocal Teaching
- Reading Recovery
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Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology
