Additional Readings and Resources
The material listed here are supplemental resources for each week of content (starting with Week 2). While you are not required to go through each reading or video listed here, we believe you will find them helpful and we encourage you to refer back here for frequently.
Week 2: Learning Theory: Behaviorism
- Learning About Learning (YouTube video)
- Are Theories of Learning Necessary? (academic article by B.F. Skinner, 1950)
- How to Train Your Brain (YouTube video from CrashCourse)
- Behaviorism: Pavlov, Watson, and Skinner (YouTube video)
- Operant Conditioning (article from SimplyPsychology)
- Behaviorism In Instructional Design For eLearning: When And How To Use (article from elearningindustry.com)
- Behaviorism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Week 3: Learning Theory: Constructivism
- Constructivism and Technology (YouTube video)
- Engineering of Learning: Conceptualizing e-Didactics (United Nations report)
- What Is the Zone of Proximal Development? (article from SimplyPsychology)
- Interaction Between Learning and Development (academic article by Lev S. Vygotsky, 1978)
- Constructivism (article from learning-theories.com)
Week 4: Learning Theory: Connectivism & Cognitivism
- Cognitive Load Theory, How Do I Apply It? (YouTube video)
- Jerome Bruner and the Process of Education (article from infed.org)
- Bruner (article from SimplyPsychology)
- Self-efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioral Change (academic article by Albert Bandura, 1977)
- The Evolution of Social Cognitive Theory (academic article by Albert Bandura, 2005)
- On the Perception of Incongruity: A Paradigm (academic article by Jerome S. Bruner and Leo Postman, 1949)
- Value and Need as Organizing Factors in Perception (academic article by Jerome S. Bruner and Cecile C. Goodman, 1947)
- A Cognitive Approach to Instructional Design for Multimedia Learning (academic article by Stephen D. Sorden, 2005)
- Multimedia Learning (overview from University at Buffalo's Center for Educational Innovation)
- Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning are a Powerful Design Resource (article from emergingedtech.com)
Week 5: Learning Theory
- Andragogy (Adult Learning) (YouTube video)
- Learning Theories/Adult Learning Theories: Andragogy (definition from WikiBooks)
- Evolution and Application of Andragogical Assumptions to the Adult Online Learning Environment (academic article by Laurie C. Blondy, 2007)
- Malcolm Knowles, Informal Adult Education, Self-Direction and Andragogy (article from infed.org)
- The Adult Learning Theory - Andragogy - of Malcolm Knowles (article from elearningindustry.com)
- The Adult Learning Theory - Andragogy - Infographic (article from elearninginfographics.com)
- Training for the New Year: Formal vs. Informal Learning Experiences (article from trainingmag.com)
- Adult Learning Theories Every Instructional Designer Must Know (article from shiftlearning.com)
- Instructional Design Approaches (overview table from University of Washington)
- Behaviorism and Instructional Design (academic article by John K. Burton, David M. (Mike) Moore, and Susan G. Magliaro, 1996)
Week 6: Complex Learning Theories
- Authentic Assessment (article from Indiana University Bloomington)
- What Are Formative Assessments and Why Should We Use Them? (article from scholastic.com)
- Authentic Assessments in Action (article from edutopia.org)
Week 7: Authentic Assessments
- Service-Learning in STEM subjects – Learning through Civic Engagement for Value-Forming Learning (YouTube video)
- Gamification in Educuation (article from learning-theories.com)
- Gamification in Education: 4 Ways To Bring Games To Your Classroom (article from tophat.com)
- Why Do Achievements, Trophies, and Badges Work? (article from psychologyofgames.com)
- Why Badges? (article from badgealliance.org)
Week 8: Technology’s Role in Learning
- Can Technology Change Education? Yes!: Raj Dhingra at TEDxBend (YouTube video from TEDx Talks)
- Classroom Technologies Narrow Education Gap in Developing Countries (article from the Brookings Institute)
- Technology Can Empower Children in Developing Countries (article from The Guardian)
- 4 Ways Technology is Making Education Accessible and Affordable (article from entrepeneur.com)
- Global Collaborations & Education (article from Global Collaboration and Learning)
- 5 Ways to Use Technology for Global Collaboration (article from asiasociety.org)
- 10 Assistive Tech for People With Disabilities (article from hongkiat.com)
- The Tech Giving People Power to Deal with Disability (article from bbc.com)
- For People With Disabilities, New Technology Can Be Life Changing (article from npr.org)