Principles of Learning

Another great resource for instructional designers: http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html

This is a great resource for instructional designers or anyone else interested in instructional design, learning, education and technology. It's published by San Diego State University, with general editor Bob Hoffman. From the site: The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET) is a collection of short multimedia articles on a variety of topics related to the fields of instructional design and education and training. The primary audiences for the EET are students and novice to intermediate practitioners in these fields, who need a brief overview as a starting point to further research on specific topics. Authors are graduate students, professors, and others who contribute voluntarily. Articles are short and use multimedia to enrich learning rather than merely decorate the pages. http://coe.sdsu.edu/eet/

This is a list of people, ideas, models, theories, etc... that I should consider including in my literature review. ------------------------------------------ From Clark (2008): Lao-Tse (5th century BC) - "If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. But if you let me experience, I will learn." ; Kung Fu-tse (Latinized as Confucius) and Han Fei-Tzu, followed Lao-Tse by using a method that closely resembles what we now call the case method or case study Socrates: the socratic method Plato: the dialectic (the socratic method); first university 385 BC; knowledge innate at birth and perfectable by experiential learning during growth Aristotle: association of ideas, balanced develoment (music, sports, play, debate, science, ...); recall Organized apprenticeship in Egypt around 2000 BC Schools organized around the 10th century Teaching: transmitting content from teacher to student; students are "empty vessels" and teacher can "pour" content into t...