Learning Theory
Also known as Andragogy, this describes "the art and science of helping people (who are not children) learn"
What is adult learning theory?
This online platform, used widely in Australian schools and universities, allows educators to create and deliver courses with features like quizzes, forums, and assignments.
What is Moodle?
This is the term for hands-on training in a healthcare setting, where students apply classroom knowledge under supervision.
What is a clinical placement?
This technology, used in clinical education, allows students to practice skills on lifelike patient models in a risk-free environment.
What is simulation-based education?
Health professionals are required to engage in this ongoing process to maintain and improve their skills and knowledge after completing formal education.
What is continuing professional development (CPD)?
This is a classification of the different outcomes and skills that educators set for their students.
What is Bloom's taxonomy?
This type of learning design focuses on the sequencing and structure of content to support student engagement and understanding.
What is instructional design?
This is an approach to the assessment of clinical competence in which the components are assessed in a planned or structured way across multiple stations around which students rotate.
What is an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)?
This collaborative approach to clinical education involves students from different healthcare professions learning with, from, and about each other.
What is interprofessional education (IPE)?
This education approach integrates digital tools and platforms to enhance learning, often combining in-person and online elements.
What is blended learning?
Albert Bandura’s theory emphasizes learning through observing and imitating others, also known by this common term.
What is social learning theory?
This constructivist learning theory emphasizes that students learn best through active exploration and problem-solving in authentic contexts.
What is experiential learning?
This framework is a guide for health and human services organisations, in partnership with education providers, to coordinate and deliver high-quality training for learners.
What is the Best Practice Clinical Learning Environment (BPCLE)?
This structured approach encourages healthcare students to analyze their experiences and improve future clinical practice.
What is reflective learning (or reflective practice)?
This essential component of health professional education teaches students principles like beneficence, autonomy, and justice.
What is ethics?
The term describes the area between what a learner can do without help and what they can do with guidance and encouragement from a more skilled peer or teacher.
What is the zone of proximal development (ZPD)?
This nine-step model provides a framework for designing effective instruction by outlining a sequence of events that enhance learning and promote the acquisition of knowledge and skills.
What is Gagne's instructional design model?
This is an approach using regular, recurrent placements in the same setting with the same supervisor over a period of time.
What is a longitudinal placement model?
This type of activity has students work together to identify solutions to complex, real-world scenarios.
What is problem-based learning (PBL)?
This historical teaching method involves a senior clinician demonstrating a procedure step-by-step to trainees before they can perform the skill and then teach it themselves.
What is "see one, do one, teach one"?
This theorist argued that learning is most effective when students construct knowledge through experiences and problem-solving.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This international set of guidelines, often abbreviated WCAG, helps ensure digital learning resources are accessible to all learners, including those with disabilities.
What are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines?
Tasks or actions defined by professions or specialties for what they expect a learner or graduate to independently execute with sufficient competence.
What is an entrustable professional activity (EPA)?
A methodology that helps teachers to prioritize active learning during class time by assigning students lecture materials and presentations to be viewed at home or outside of class.
What is a flipped classroom?
This theory addresses both underlying determinants of health behavior and the methods of promoting change and was based on the interaction between individual and environment.
What is social cognitive theory?