This learning theory is based on the idea that learners passively receive knowledge from teachers and learn by repetition.
What is behavorism?
100
This principle states that learning is enhanced by recalling knowledge from relevant past experience.
What is the activation principle?
100
Adding irrelevant background music to a presentation is an example of this type of cognitive demand.
What is extraneous load/incidental processing?
100
This is the "social version of the web".
What is Web 2.0?
100
This psychologist is credited with being the founder of social learning theory.
Who is Albert Bandura?
200
This learning theory is based on the idea that learning occurs by incorporating new information with prior knowledge.
What is cognitivism?
200
This principle states that learning is enhanced by showing the learner (rather than describing to the learner) the skills to be learned.
What is the demonstration principle?
200
This type of memory can hold 7 +/- 2 information elements at a time.
What is working memory?
200
This model of online learning is composed of social presence, cognitive presence, and teaching presence.
What is the community of inquiry (framework)?
200
Lave and Wenger are credited with this learning model whereby people with similar interests engage in collective learning.
What are communities of practice?
300
This learning theory views the learner as an active participant in the process of making meaning of the outside world.
What is constructivism?
300
This principles states that learning is enhanced when learners are required to use their newly acquired knowledge or skill to solve a problem.
What is the application principle?
300
This method reduces incidental processing demands by providing cues to the learner about how to select and organize material.
What is "signaling"?
300
This gap, identified by Bloom, suggests that students trained with a tutor perform two standard deviations better than students trained with traditional instructional.
What is the "2-sigma problem"?
300
The process by which a teacher helps a student reach skill levels beyond their current abilities with tapering levels of support as the student acquires the skill.
What is scaffolding?
400
Papert formulated this learning theory which suggests that learning is most effective when learners are active in creating or building tangible objects in the real world.
What is constructionism?
400
This principle states that learning is enhanced when skills are demonstrated and applied to real-world situations.
What is the task/problem-centered approach?
400
This effect describes when learners are overloaded by more than one stimuli in their visual channel (e.g. animation + text).
What is the modality effect?
400
Csikszentmihalyi defined this theory as “an optimal life experience in which people are so absorbed and engaged by the experience that time seems to vanish".
What is flow theory?
400
The process in which a more experienced person assists a less experienced person by utilization of cognitive and metacognitive skills to guide learning.
What is cognitive apprenticeship?
500
This learning theory "for the digital age" states that learning occurs outside the learner and across social networks.
What is connectivism?
500
This principles states that learning is enhanced by encouraging learners to introduce newly acquired knowledge into their personal, everyday life.
What is the integration principle?
500
This effect suggests that successful teaching methods for novice learners may have deleterious effects on knowledgable learners.
What is the expertise reversal effect/individual differences principle?
500
The equivalent of Web 1.0's taxonomies, whereby layperson users can "tag" relevant information for quick retrieval.
What are folksonomies?
500
Vygotsky used this term to describe the space between a learner's current skill level and the next skill level that the learner cannot reach without assistance.