Learning Theories
by Stephan Rinke
1. Constructivism
1.1. Social, meaning created by each learner (personal)
1.2. Influencing factors
1.2.1. Engagement, participation, social, cultural
1.3. Transfer occurs through Socialisation
1.4. Memory: Prior knowledge remixed to current context
1.5. Social, vague (“ill defined”)
2. Connectivism
2.1. Learning occurs
2.1.1. Distributed within a network
2.1.2. social
2.1.3. technologically enhanced
2.1.4. through recognizing and interpreting patterns
2.2. Influencing factors
2.2.1. Diversity of network
2.2.2. strength of ties
2.2.3. context of occurrence
2.3. Memory
2.3.1. Adaptive patterns
2.3.2. representative of current state
2.3.3. existing in networks
2.4. Transfer through
2.4.1. Connecting to (adding) nodes and growing the network
2.5. Complex learning, rapid changing core, diverse knowledge sources
3. Behaviourism
3.1. Black box—observable behaviour main focus
3.2. Nature of reward, punishment, stimuli
3.3. Memory is the hardwiring of repeated experiences
3.4. Transfer through
3.4.1. Stimulus, response