Book chapter
Learning theory and its application to e-learning
Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research, pp.82-97
Routledge
2007
Abstract
This chapter explores approaches to learning that we argue best reflect a constantly changing, dynamic environment as reflected in current thinking (Giddens, 1999; Beck, 1992; Castells, 1996). We acknowledge that there are many different schools of thought in terms of learning theories, but we will focus here on those we believe are most relevant and applicable to e-learning. This will include a discussion of the following: a critique of behaviourist approaches and their impact, advocacy of the application of experiential/reflective, social constructivist and socio-cultural approaches, and the argument that effective e-learning usually requires, or involves, high-quality educational discourse (Ravenscroft, 2004a) combined with an experiential and reflective approach (Conole et al., 2004; Mayes and de Freitas, 2004).
Details
- Title
- Learning theory and its application to e-learning
- Authors/Creators
- M. Dyke (Author/Creator)G. Conole (Author/Creator)A. Ravenscroft (Author/Creator)S. de Freitas (Author/Creator)
- Contributors
- M. Oliver (Editor) - Institute of EducationG. Conole (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Contemporary Perspectives in E-Learning Research, pp.82-97
- Publisher
- Routledge; London, UK
- Identifiers
- 991005544021607891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
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