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Theories and Models of Learning for Educational Research and Practice. This knowledge base features learning theories and models that address how people learn. We have tried to summarize and discuss these theories in an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand format. This site is a resource useful for scholars of various fields, including educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction.

Go on, ask yourself, ask other teachers, ask some students: what is learning? It’s a pretty big question isn’t it? One that I might have felt hopelessly unequal to answering before reading Graham Nuthall‘s The Hidden Lives of Learners. This book draws together one of the most impressive attempts to find out what goes on

Learn what to look for when your work is returned from the marker. Develop your study skills by learning from your mistakes and building on your strengths.

Learn what to look for when your work is returned from the marker. Develop your study skills by learning from your mistakes and building on your strengths.

An interesting take on learning objectives/outcomes/intentions. As this is a blog post, take a look at the author & how valid you think their argument is. Learning outcomes, as we've been describing them, as certainly behaviourist in nature - to what extent to you agree with the critique in this blog post?

Many of the reasons digital portfolios are being used here resonate with how I see the digital portfolio on the Tech for Learning course

Many of the reasons digital portfolios are being used here resonate with how I see the digital portfolio on the Tech for Learning course

What a great visual tool to review learning theories.

What a great visual tool to review learning theories.

I wrote a post a couple of years ago about learning and performance, inspired by David Didau’s own blog and a workshop I attended that really opened my eyes. This blog post was removed after …

I wrote a post a couple of years ago about learning and performance, inspired by David Didau’s own blog and a workshop I attended that really opened my eyes. This blog post was removed after …

Description of various learning theories. Theories that fall within three categories: behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism.

Nice article on the myths of learning styles with plenty of links to further reading

Nice article on the myths of learning styles with plenty of links to further reading

some great suggestions for how word clouds can be used in the classroom

some great suggestions for how word clouds can be used in the classroom

Training for e-learning to support Functional Skills

Formative assessment refers to a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course. Formative assessments help teachers identify concepts that students are struggling to understand, skills they are having difficulty acquiring, or learning standards they have not yet …

John Hattie, the author of the much quoted Visible Learning was recently appointed by the Federal Government to the Chairmanship of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership.  In …

John Hattie, the author of the much quoted Visible Learning was recently appointed by the Federal Government to the Chairmanship of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership.  In …

#TDReflex14 - Week One Finding a Voice (April 28 - May 4) Welcome to week one of our 'uncourse', Teach Different - The Reflexion Programme 2014 (known on-line as #TDReflex14). Here's Lou saying hello on a screencast. What's it all about? At this point you might be wondering what on earth an 'uncourse' is, and how you will engage with it! The idea is that the community is the curriculum. The primary goal, rather than being about a particular topic, is to participate with people in our field. You'll need to forget all those traditional 'teachery' ideas about learning outcomes, start and finish times, progression routes, assessment - just find a space that you are comfortable with, and join in! It is all based around the concept of rhizomatic learning - as defined here:

and yet another report debunking the learning styles myth.

and yet another report debunking the learning styles myth.

another great article on the myths of learning styles

another great article on the myths of learning styles

videoscribe on John Hattie's Visible Learning

Sent to the year 1 Yammer page as an introduction

Sent to the year 1 Yammer page as an introduction

In this lesson, we learn quick rules of getting the gist; or point of a sentence, paragraph and essay. This skill will improve your reading speed...

In this lesson, we learn quick rules of getting the gist; or point of a sentence, paragraph and essay. This skill will improve your reading speed...