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4 Learning Theories Every Online Educator Should Know

LearnDash

During the twentieth century, four major learning theories emerged, and each has lessons that online educators can learn from to design better courses. If you’re trying to coach your students to change their responses to various events, learning more about behaviorism will be helpful to you. Let’s look at what they are.

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Moving from Sales Theory to Practice: Strategies for Better Outcomes

Infopro Learning

In the world of commerce, theories abound, filling countless textbooks and lecture halls with promises of winning strategies and techniques. These theories provide a foundation, a blueprint, for navigating the intricate sales landscape. However, theory alone seldom guarantees success.

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Course Ideas for Online Coaches and Mentors

LearnDash

Wondering how you can incorporate online learning into your coaching program? In recent years, online coaching has become a booming business. Coaching and mentoring tend to be very personal courses. Coaching and mentoring tend to be very personal courses. Life coaching. Business coaching. Personal fitness.

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Theory or Research?

Clark Quinn

My answer to theory or research is theory. For instance, the work on worked examples comes from John Sweller’s Cognitive Load theory. Theory generates experiments which refine theory. Theory generates experiments which refine theory. Researchers tend to run experiments driven by a theory.

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ID and eLearning Links 7/9/19

Experiencing eLearning

Constructivism is a theory of learning, not a theory of pedagogy. Products – Kognito This vendor has a library of scenario-based courses using virtual coaches. You can ask for help from the virtual coach or undo your last action. tags: teaching research education spacedlearning cogpsych neuroscience.

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AI Tools, Games, Freelancing: ID Links 2/14/23

Experiencing eLearning

Through the simulated choices of social media messages and lots of immediate feedback and coaching, you learn to recognize tactics for manipulating information and influence online. The fields of instructional design, learning & development and learning theory have been shaped by a wide range of people over many years.

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Should We Create Courses or Just Performance Support?

Experiencing eLearning

Another argument is that while people do need to learn, they can do it all on the job with performance support and coaching. A course can include on the job learning, coaching, performance support tools, in other words, the whole shebang.” Coaching and on-the-job learning are also not formally designed.