Course: Learning in the Network Age

The third picture represents our next learning theory – Social Constructivism. Like Cognitive Constructivism, our mental maps (schema) are important, so is actively ‘doing things’. However, this theory argues that …

Our next picture represents the second learning theory – Cognitive Constructivism. This theory considers knowledge as contained in a series of ‘mental maps’ – or schema – inside our brains. …

The picture above represents a theory called Behaviouralism (also known as Behaviourism), which considers knowledge to be a collection of conditioned behavioural responses to external stimuli. In other words, we …

This animation explains some of the different theories about how we learn and how they relate to teaching. These theories have a big influence on how we learn and how …