Week 8: Readings

Required Readings:

Choose one of the two by Silber:

Foshay, Silber, & Stelnicki. (2003). Chapters 1 and 2 in Writing Training Materials That Work.

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Silber, K. (1998). Cognitive approach to training development: A practitioner's assessment. ETR&D 46:4, pp. 58-72.

Driscoll, M.P. (2000). Gagne's Theory of Instruction. Ch. 10 in Psychology of Learning for Instruction, 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 341-372.

Driscoll, M.P. (2000). Constructivism. Ch. 11 in Psychology of Learning for Instruction, 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 373-396.

Optional Reading:

Wildman, T.M. (1981, July). Cognitive theory and the design of instruction. Educational Technology 21:7, 14-20.

Winn, W. (2004). Cognitive perspectives in psychology. In D.J. Jonassen (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, 2nd ed. (pp. 79-112). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Duffy, T.M., & Cunningham, D.J. (1996). Constructivism: implications for the design and delivery of instruction. In D.J. Jonassen (Ed.), Handbook of Research for Educational Communications and Technology (pp. 170 198). New York: Macmillan Library Reference USA.

Airasian, P. & Walsh, M.. (1997, Feb.) Constructivist cautions. Phi Delta Kappan 78:6, 444-449.

Molenda, M. Cognitivism and Constructivism. Excerpt from pre-publication manuscript.

Brown, Collins, & Duguid (1989), Situated cognition and the culture of learning.

Additional Resources:

• Driscoll, M.P. (2000). Psychology of learning for instruction (2nd ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
• Theory Into Practice (TIP) http://tip.psychology.org/index.html
• The Cognitive System http://chiron.valdosta.edu/whuitt/col/cogsys/cogsys.html
• Cognitivism http://www.cocc.edu/cbuell/theories/cognitivism.htm
• An Information Processing Model http://studytips.aac.ohiou.edu/?Function=memory&Type=infoProcess
• Celebrities in Cognitive Science http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html
• Constructivism http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/constructivism.html
• Socio-Cultural Theory http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/soc_cult.html
• Learning Environments http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/le.html