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Understanding The Practices of Instructional Designers Through The Lenses of Different Learning Theories

Yeo, (Sue) Siew Hoong

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2013, Master of Education (MEd), Bowling Green State University, Career and Technology Education/Technology.

We are living in a wired and fast-paced world where we are surrounded with cutting-edge technologies that have consistently modernized and globalized society in many ways. How does this influence the destinies of the three primary learning theories—behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism—that were developed decades ago? Are the educators, trainers, and instructional designers on the same page with this modernized and globalized society to adequately deliver the knowledge and instructional materials to today’s learners? With this thesis, the researcher began to unfold the background information and key concepts in four learning theories—behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and connectivism—and related these theories to the instructional design models in use today. As we know, the instructional designers play crucial roles in creating efficient and innovative courseware for both online and offline training/educational programs.

The problems above led the researcher to explore whether the four learning frameworks—behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and connectivism—were being used by practicing instructional designers today and how they are being interpreted based on new and emerging technologies, learning theories, and models. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to find out how applicable and commonly used these four learning theories—behaviorism, cognitivism, constructivism, and connectivism—were by practicing instructional designers in the creation of learning design materials.

Terry Herman, Dr. (Advisor)
Paul Cesarini, Dr. (Committee Member)
Fei Gao, Dr. (Committee Member)
73 p.

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  • Yeo, S. H. (2013). Understanding The Practices of Instructional Designers Through The Lenses of Different Learning Theories [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1367862206

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yeo, (Sue) Siew. Understanding The Practices of Instructional Designers Through The Lenses of Different Learning Theories. 2013. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1367862206.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yeo, (Sue) Siew. "Understanding The Practices of Instructional Designers Through The Lenses of Different Learning Theories." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1367862206

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)