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Improving Educational Practices
Teaching and Learning Theories
Learning Theories
Learning
Styles
Learning styles
theory
Based on research demonstrating that as the result of heredity, upbringing,
and environmental demands, different individuals perceive and process
information differently.
http://www.funderstanding.com/learning_styles.cfm
VARK
A short, simple inventory that can help students learn more effectively
and faculty become more sensitive to the diversity of teaching strategies
necessary to reach all students. VARK is free for use in student or
faculty development.
http://www.active-learning-site.com/vark.htm
Learning Style Inventory
A statistically reliable and valid assessment tool developed by David
A. Kolb, Ph.D. that identifies preferred learning styles and explores
the opportunities different styles present. You can order the LSI booklette,
user's guide, and transparencies from this site or take the LSI Online
for a fee.
http://pss.uvm.edu/pss162/learning_styles.html
Multiple
Intelligences
This theory of human intelligence suggests there
are at least seven ways that people have of perceiving and understanding
the
world.
http://www.funderstanding.com/multiple_intelligence.cfm
How Right
Brain/Left Brain Impacts Learning
Experimentation has shown
that the two different hemispheres of the brain are responsible for
different manners of
thinking.
http://www.funderstanding.com/right_left_brain.cfm
Constructivism
The
constructivist theory suggests that learning is an active process in which
learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past
knowledge.
http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.html
Social
Cognition
The social cognition learning model asserts
that culture is the prime determinant of individual
development.
http://www.funderstanding.com/vygotsky.cfm
Cognitive
Flexibility Theory
The theory is
largely concerned with transfer of knowledge and skills beyond their
initial learning
situation.
http://www.uqac.uquebec.ca/dse/3psy206/auteurs/!spiro.html
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The Changing Nature of the Professorate
Peer
Collaboration
Excerpt from Making Teaching Community
Property, by Pat Hutchings, Director, American Association for Higher
Education Teaching Initiative.
http://www.aahe.org/pubs/making.htm
Raising
The Bar For Student Learning
(Otherwise Entitled "The
Education Of A Teacher") by Catherine Helgeland, University of Wisconsin,
Manitowoc reprinted in The Teaching
Professor.
http://www.uwmanitowoc.uwc.edu/staff/chelgela/Helgeland%20Papers.htm#Bar
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Education Reform
Education Reform
http://www.funderstanding.com/education_reform.cfm
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