This group is opened to create a sharing community among the students who take courses related to theories of learning and learning sciences.
Hi all! Here is a real story of a basketball trainer working with Kobe Bryant for the Olympics in 2012. Many people might call his talent "innate" but I am sure this story is a remarkable evidence ...
here is a video about a conference which is named building expertise. Executive director is talking about the process which goes to be an expert. He is emphasizing the difficulty of this process an...
Here are two videos about Bill Gate's comments on expertise and Bill Gate's working routine. In the first video he supports the idea that timing is a significant element in expertise. However, he s...
This video presents a general overview about the discussions whether experts have special inborn abilities. He is asking that the reason for why they are so good. then focusing on deliberate practi...
Hi Dreyfus model is another skill acqusition model. http://www.class.uh.edu/cogsci/dreyfus.html Dreyfus & Dreyfus states 5 level of skill acqusition. Novice: Needs context-free rules. He is hop...
Even there are some examples of expertise seeming to decline with experience, for being an expertise teacher one of the common aspect is being more experienced. According to the idea of "practicing...
Dr. Barron is a developmental psychologist at Stanford University. She mainly studies processes of collaborative learning. She is well-known for her 5-year-study documenting adolescents' learning e...
"Allan Collins is in some respects the 'Father' of the Learning Sciences," He combined his cognitive science background with the learning research experiments. http://itls.usu.edu/groups/6505_know...
David Paul Ausubel (1918-2008) was an American psychologist and cognitive learning theoriest who had a significant contribution to the areas of educational psychology, cognitive science, and scienc...
Hi everyone!!! I'd like to share information about Jean Piaget and Janet L. Kolodner, whom I find quite important in the field of learning sciences. Everyone who studied teaching should be quite fa...
Roy Pea has many publications in the field of learning sciences and on learning technology design. He made important contributions to the understanding of how people learn with technology. He is a ...
Hi all! Let me introduce two researchers who have made important contributions to learning sciences. The first name is Seymour Papert, who established connections with Piaget's developmental psycho...
Two Groundbreakers "Practicing as a groundbreaking learning method" and "Music in learning" Mozart studied for 10 years in order to compose his best concerto which means 10.000 hours and as anothe...
2 pioneers in learning sciences Carl Rogers: Significant learning. He states that teaching is useless or damaging. Only Learning (or personal experiences) can yield a change is behaviors and ...
Betül it is a great video and the most important part for me was "people are social learners" and the importance of making connections rather than memorizing. Here is a video that was screened from...
