eLearning Paradigms 2014

*Reblog. This content was originally posted on Will Thalheimer’s WillAtWorkLearning: eLearning Paradigms 2014. Thank you so much Will for creating this paradigms list and your efforts to the eLearning Manifesto.

I created a list of eLearning Paradigms to talk about subscription learning, but I think the list could stand on its own–and I’d like comments to see what I’ve missed.

Elearning is still a relatively young field, having its start in the 1960′s during the advent of the computer age and gradually gaining a critical mass after the internet became a mass phenomenon. Because it’s a young field, we are still learning how to think about elearning. With each new paradigm, we think more deeply, more fully about what elearning is–and can be. Below is my categorization of the most important elearning paradigms as of 2014.