My Experience with the 5 learning theories

MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE 5 LEARNING THEORIES To make it easy for me to remember and reflect i am dividing my life so far into Preschool School College Professional course Professional And will take each part and describe the learning … Continue reading

Social learning: teaching ‘motherhood’ to orphaned lionesses

We should never underestimate the value of social learning. Zoo officials in Junagadh were struggling with the fact that lionesses orphaned at birth were unaware of how to bring up their cubs and therefore the mortality rate was very high. … Continue reading

Compare and Contrast Various Learning Theories

None of the learning theories can completely define the learning process in its entirety. Rather depending on the context in which learning is occurring and the goal of learning, a theory takes predominance. Instructors will have to become adept at … Continue reading

Tell me more: Larks Learning’s Trainer MOOC

#Trainer MOOC “I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I need to go on learning.” Socrates Ever since the announcement on India’s FIRST and ONLY MOOC on Training, I am getting lots of queries asking to know … Continue reading

Why a massive open online course (MOOC) in training makes sense?

Training is only about presenting well, playing training games and ensuring good feedback. Surely that’s not true! Training after all was a profession and one where you could impact either positively or negatively many people. Over the course of our (mine and Anila’s) 16 year … Continue reading

Scaffold Instruction – How we induct trainers into our team?

After reading the research article “Scaffold instruction at the workplace from a situated perspective” by Klaus Nielsen, Department of Psychology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. I realized that I was using it extensively in my personal and professional life. In our … Continue reading

Learning Theories – Social Learning

Key Principles Focuses on the impact of people on people. Proposes that learning is a social process. (Monkey see monkey do) Most of what people learn is in a social context through observations and interactions with other people, reflection and then imitation … Continue reading