Teaching Strategies: Learning Theories
There is a variety of research about student motivation and how students process information. The links in this section offer short overviews of various aspects of this research and how it can be applied to instruction.
Explorations
in Learning & Instruction, The Theory Into Practice Database (2002)
http://tip.psychology.org/index.html
This database contains a vast array of basic information about learning theory.
Index of Learning Theories and Models
http://www.learning-theories.com/
Provides an overview of major learning theories and models, organized by paradigm (behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, humanism, and others)
Learning Partnerships Model: Promoting self-authorship to promote liberal
education (Baxter Magolda, 2009)
http://www.collegevalues.org/pdfs/Baxter_Magolda.pdf
This resource describes the Learning Partnerships Model (LPM), a set of assumptions and principles about student learning in college that are intended to shape practice. The LPM reinforces the longstanding principle of challenge and support and emphasizes the freedom and responsibility of the learner in the partnership.
Teaching
for Transformation: From Learning Theory to Teaching Strategies (McGonigal,
2005)
http://ctl.stanford.edu/Newsletter/transformation.pdf
Summary of Mezirow’s Transformative Learning theory and strategies from Stanford professors on how to apply it in the classroom.
Seven Principles for Good Practice: Enhancing Student Learning
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/SevenPrinciples.pdf
Identifies teaching practices, policies, and institutional conditions that result in a powerful and enduring undergraduate education.
A
Developmental Perspective on Learning (King & Baxter Magolda,
1996)
http://www.crlt.umich.edu/tstrategies/KingBaxterMagolda1996-DevelopmentalPerspectiveonLearning.pdf
Outlines 4 key elements of an integrated view of learning that can help educators promote student learning and personal development.
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience,
and School (Bransford, Brown, and Cocking, Eds., 1999)
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=6160
Free on-line text of a seminal work on learning, development, and schooling