EDS300H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Instructional Design, Educational Technology, Behaviorism
Document Summary
Behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism: comparing critical features from an instructional design perspective . Learning theories provide instructional designers with verified instructional strategies and techniques for facilitating learning. Bridge between educational practice and learning research lead to the creation and development of linking science translating theory into practice. Two sets of skills and knowledge is needed for translating principles of learning into optimal instructional materials/activities. Learning theories are source of verified instructional strategies, tactics, and techniques. Learning theories provide the foundation for intelligent and reasoned strategy selection. Integration of the selected strategy within the instructional context is of critical importance. Ultimate role of a theory is to allow for reliable predictions. Less than 2% of the courses offered in university curricula in the general area of educational technology emphasizes theory as one of their key concepts. Learning is an enduring change in behaviour or the capacity to behave in a given fashion which results from practice or other forms of experience .
