Learning Theories by Stephan Rinke

Learning Theories

Behaviourism

Black box—observable behaviour main focus

Nature of reward, punishment, stimuli

Memory is the hardwiring of repeated experiences

Transfer through

Task-based learning

Constructivism

Social, meaning created by each learner (personal)

Influencing factors

Transfer occurs through Socialisation

Memory: Prior knowledge remixed to current context

Social, vague (“ill defined”)

Cognitivism

Structured, computational

Existing schema, previous experiences

Encoding, storage, retrieval

Duplicating knowledge constructs of “knower”

Reasoning, clear objectives, problem solving

Connectivism

Learning occurs

Influencing factors

Memory

Transfer through

Complex learning, rapid changing core, diverse knowledge sources