Foundations: Philosophy

1. New information

2. Revision

3. New Research

4. New teaching media

5. New Socio-historic contexts

6. Instructional Practice

7. Theoretical Perspectives (inform learning theories)

8. Learning Theories

9. Instructional Theories and Associated Methods (prescriptive)

10. Realism

11. Empiricism

12. Relativism

13. Philosophical Perspectives about how we come to know our world our born out of philosophy.

14. Psychological Perspectives of Learning

15. New Information

16. New Research

17. Revision

18. Situativity Theory

19. Sociocultural Historicism

20. Cognitive Constructivism

20.1. subjective, relativist, empiricist

21. Behaviorism

22. Cognitivism

22.1. MAC - Mind as a Computer

22.2. MAB - Mind as a Brain

22.3. Mind as a Rhizome

23. Rationalism & Idealism

24. Pragmatism

25. Objectivism

26. Theoretical Foundations Research Areas

26.1. Psychology of learning

26.2. communications theory

26.3. human-computer interaction

26.4. instructional design and development