Thursday, May 14, 2009
Learning versus Instructional theory
It is a general but, I believe, mistaken idea that learning theories can be applied directly into instructional designs. I think there are translations necessary to convert a learning theory into an instructional theory that can be applied directly. By looking more closely at theories, you can see that the ones that tended to be most easy to apply to designs are those that considered themselves "instructional" theories rather than "learning" theories. I think the key difference is that a learning theory posits from what is exists or is thought to exist. Instructional theory posits from what can be made to be there. It supplies terms for elements that can be created.
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Is this also because learning tends to be an individualized experience, less predictable, with larger variants outside the control of the designer, and therefore any learning theory that attempts to represent these experiences is less subject to the constructs of the design?
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