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Deliverables

LDT 100x
Comparing Learning Theories Personal Learning Experiences BehaviorismConstructivismConnectivismAndragogyAuthentic Assessment MicroLearning Project

LDT 200x

Learning Philosophy ADDIE Mindmap Dick + Carey Podcast Understanding By Design Rapid Resolution Document

SME Submission LDT200x Signature Assignment

LDT 300x Open Education Resources (OER) Checklist Digital Document Digital Flier w/Images Storyboard + Video Storyboard + Screencast Digital Audio Storyboard + Interactive Module LDT300x Signature Assignment

LDT 400x Full, 3-Week Course Design

Cognitivism + Connectivism

LDT100x Instructional Design and Technology: Learning Theories

Published: Oct. 27, 2019

For this project, learners presented an overview and comparison of both Cognitivism and Connectivism in a text-based or a visual way (I chose visual) and described a learning scenario that presents each learning theory in practice. I used the same learning scenario for each theory and then altered the scenario to fit the learning-theory constructs.

Cognitivism Learning Scenario

Cognitivism Learning Scenario Turned into Connectivism Learning Scenario

A manager is leading a team of interns and needs
to teach them how to set up a social-listening program so the company can monitor what customers are saying about the company's
products. In this case, it is assumed that the interns have no previous experience with creating a social-listening program in a business setting. However,
by relating this new task to highly similar
procedures with which the interns have had more experience, the manager can facilitate a smooth
and efficient assimilation of this new procedure
into memory.

These familiar procedures may include setting up personal social-media sites, making connections
on the sites, posting to them, and monitoring comments and mentions. The procedures for
such activities may not exactly match those of
the social-listening program, but the similarity between the activities allows for the unfamiliar information to be put within a familiar context.

Thus processing requirements are reduced and the potential effectiveness of recall cues is increased.

A manager is leading a team of interns and needs to teach them how to set up a social-listening program so the company can monitor what customers are saying about the company's products. It is assumed that the interns have no previous experience with creating a social-listening program in a business setting.

The manager assigns the interns to spend 2 weeks creating a wiki online in which they are expected to post resources, snippets of articles, information about social-listening tools found on the Internet.

Given Connectivism's principle that learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources, team members are expected to interact with each other and collaboratively share and edit resources. Importantly, they are expected to interview others at companies with social-listening programs to gather their ideas and experiences and post them to the wiki. Nurturing and maintaining connections is needed to facilitate continual learning.

Both scenarios inspired by a scenario in a chapter by Peggy A. Ertmer and Timothy J. Newby (2018). Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism. In R. West (Ed.), Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology (1st ed.). Available at https://lidtfoundations.pressbooks.com/.