Developing Innovative Strategies
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The Learning Theories
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the Instructional Design Theories
Behaviorism is the observable human and animal behavior that is based on conditioning and experience. While psychologists are known as behaviorists, their collective theories of learning truly shape the foundation of what’s known as behaviorism (Ormord, 2020).
Cognitivism is a learning theory that is a relatively permanent change in internal mental structures due to experience; learning involves information processing activities to sense, process, store, control, and recall information (Ormrod, 2020).
Social learning involves learning (constructing) a set of behaviors that the learner believes are acceptable and under what conditions they are not acceptable. Humans are social by nature, and learn by observing the behaviors of others as well as by observing the outcomes of those behaviors. (Ormrod, 2020)
