Cognitive Bias in Learning: An Overview
What Are Cognitive Biases? Our brains receive non-stop input from all five senses every moment we are awake. In the face of this enormous amount […]
How Design Thinking for Educators Elevates Corporate Training
Why should Learning & Development professionals care about Design Thinking? In their book, Innovation by Design, Lockwood and Paske describe how organizations that adopt Design Thinking […]
Sharing Freely: Learning & Development Resolutions for 2019
Henry Kingman Instructional Designer My resolution for 2019 as an instructional designer is to always go one step further. Whether I’m brainstorming solutions, designing meaningful […]
Social Learning in Clinical Settings: Adult Learning Theory Applied to #MedEd
Developmentally, both individually and as a culture, much of our learning has been social learning. Social learning theory is the concept of learning from other […]
Constructivism 8: Challenges of Elearning
Regarding the challenges of elearning, in 2001 David Jonassen argues that “most e-learning replicates the worst features of face-to-face instruction: it may be cheaper to […]
Constructivism 9: Mindtools
Mindtools are computer-based tools and learning environments that have been adapted or developed to function as intellectual partners with the learner in order to engage […]
Constructivism 10: More Mindtools
Learning is not restricted to formal learning environments, and that learners can acquire sophisticated skills and advanced knowledge in natural learning situations. Computer-based technologies can […]
Constructivism 11: Organizational Learning
Argyris & Schön support the argument that individuals have mental maps both for their skill assets and how to act in situations. They assert that […]
Constructivism 12: Single Loop Learning
Chris Argyris and Donald Schön suggest that each member of an organisation constructs their own representation of the actual, tacit, applied organisational behaviours, also called […]
Constructivism 13: Double Loop Learning
In double loop learning, goals or decision-making rules are modified in the light of experience; the second loop facilitates their modification. Double-loop learning recognises that […]
Constructivism 7: Social Learning cont’d
Continuing our exploration of social learning. Vygotsky argues that learning precedes development. As developmental processes lag behind learning processes, less experienced or developed individuals can […]
Constructivism 6: Social Learning
One of the primary conditions of knowledge working is the social learning aspect. Knowledge workers can learn by collaborating with their peers with similar skill […]
