This group is opened to create a sharing community among the students who take courses related to theories of learning and learning sciences.
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Here is a video that makes a summary of the advantages of online tutoring and how it is effective on learning. There are also interviews with the people who is using computer tutor and good example...
