Learning Methods and Theories

• Active Learning
• Aesthetic Realism
• Behaviorism
• Brain-Based Learning
• Charter Schools
• Constructivism
• Cooperative Education
• Experiential Education
• Inquiry Based Learning
• Learning Styles
• Montessori
• Multiple Intelligences
• Outcome-Based Education
• Problem-Based Learning
• Reggio Emilia Approach
• Right Brain ?Left Brain Thinking
• Situated Learning
• Transformative Learning
• Waldorf



• BrainConnection.com - Web-based resource of info regarding the brain. Designed for educators, parents, students and teachers.
• Desuggestive Learning - Explains desuggestive education and provides advice on how to utilize it.
• Diversified Learning - Suite 101 subject regarding the variety methods people employ to learn. Features methods used in teaching gifted and talented in addition to at risk students.
• Dr. Thomas Armstrong - Educator and psychologist in the fields of multiple intelligences, explores "the myth of ADD/ADHD, and the natural genius of kids". Provides strategies for nurturing our youth through special developmental potentials.
• Education: Public or Private Goods? - Explores theories which conclude that learning in education is either a private or public good.
• The Epistemology and Learning Group (MIT) - Examines how modern technologies can facilitate cutting-edge methods of thinking, learning, and designing.
• ERIC Digest Blog - Blog which includes a variety of ERIC Digests exploring educational theories and practices on a daily basis. Features current posts and archive.
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School - Provides E-text of a 300-page 1999 National Academy of Sciences study. Current research offers a complex understanding of reasoning and performance regarding problem-solving tasks and how skill and understanding in vital areas are obtained.
• Implicity - A special model of human education changing the purpose of educational technology.
• Infed.org - Information for teachers and others involved in informal education, youth work, community development and lifelong learning.
• Intentional Learning Projects - Details projects, research and articles exploring mass customization and personalization topics (adaptive learning) for E-LEARNING (Web, WBT, and CBT).
• Introduction to Motor Behavior and Control - PowerPoint Presentation.
• John Dewey and Informal Education - Explore the life and works of a man known as the father of educational philosophy.
• Learning and Teaching Information Technology Computers Skills in Context - Discover methods some people utilize to teach information technology skills.
• Manipulative Visual Language - System and theory for the instruction of English to deaf children.
• Multiple Intelligences: Gardner's Theory - Offers full-text access to the ERIC Digest which explores the theory of Howard Gardner regarding multiple intelligences and how it might be related to student education.
• Music Learning Theory - Info and examination of how people learn and when we learn music.
• Ritmia - Details method of music education and of motion activity designed to bridge a gap created by traditional teaching practices.
• Roof On Fire - Study of a training class on experiential education, including practices and theory.
• Suggestology - Information regarding this learning theory for teaching foreign languages.
• The Truth About Homework - The negative aspects homework has on students. Features opinions, polls, message board, and links.