Instructor+Guide+LTMS525

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 * COURSE SCHEDULE: ** (subject to change to meet scheduling and student needs)

Class 1: Thursday, September 3, 2009 Class 2: Thursday, September 10, 2009 Class 3: Thursday, September 17, 2009 Class 4: Thursday, September 24, 2009
 * Topic: Introductions (Participants, Moodle, Text)
 * What value is this course?
 * Can you describe how you learn?
 * What are Learning Theories?
 * Andragogy vs. Pedagogy is there a difference?
 * Reading: Behaviorism (Ch3)
 * Assignment: Forum Discussion
 * Myers Briggs / DISC
 * [|What is Behaviorism?]
 * What are Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction?
 * Chart Showing connectiong between [|Gagne Event and Behaviorist event]
 * Assignment / In-class activity: Behaviorism and Gagne's Nine Events
 * Assignment/ In-class activity: [|Applying behavioral perspectives]
 * Assignment: Learning Theory Journal
 * Reading: Intro to Cognitivism (Ch6 & 7), Memory
 * Assignment: Forum Discussion
 * What is Cognitivism?
 * What is Memories role in Congnitivism?
 * Assignment/ In-class activity: Memory
 * Modeling, Effective Models (p126-132)
 * Reading: Stages of Development
 * Assignment: Forum Discussion

Class 5: Thursday, October 1, 2009
 * How do the Stages of Development (Piaget, Case, Vygotsky) impact learning?
 * Motivation (strategy) - (ARCS - Keller, Maslov's Hierarchy of Needs, Hull)
 * Cognitive Apprenticeships
 * Assignment: Forum Discussion

Class 6: Thursday, October 8, 2009
 * What are Bloom's Taxonomy (objectives) and its role in learning?
 * Domains of learning (cognitive, affective, psychomotor)
 * Prior knowledge
 * Schema
 * Scaffolding
 * Activity: Breaking down Cognitive Learning Theory

Class 7: Thursday, October 15, 2009 Class 8: Thursday, October 22, 2009 Class 9: Thursday, October 29, 2009 Class 10: Thursday, November 5, 2009 Class 11: Thursday, November 12, 2009 Class 12: Thursday, November 19, 2009 Class 13: Thursday, December 3, 2009 Learning styles future in: Class 14: Thursday, December 10, 2009 · Summary: How to use all of this when there is not one right answer
 * Consolidation (reflection) techniques
 * Integrating cognitive perspectives (concepts, problem solving)
 * Mid-term assessment
 * ** Constructivism **
 * Impact on environment design
 * ** Humanism **
 * Cultural, Societal, Demography influences
 * ** Connectivism **
 * Technology role causes, results, influences
 * Kolb's Learning Styles
 * Gardner's Multiple Intelligences
 * Brain research and it's impact on instructional theory and strategies
 * Psychology of optimal learning
 * Metacognition
 * Memory-monitoring
 * Meta-reasoning
 * Societal changes
 * Presentation
 * Communication
 * Assessment

Class 15: Thursday, December 17, 2009


 * Final assessment: Student design plan presentations