{"id":316,"date":"2019-11-17T17:57:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/?p=316"},"modified":"2019-11-28T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T03:07:48","slug":"how-is-leaning-best-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/how-is-leaning-best-accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"How is Learning best Accomplished?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I read articles that discuss different learning principles, techniques, and models, I keep wondering how one makes the right choice on which to use.\u00a0 Merrill (2002) discusses five principles in his article, each of which sound as though they would work just fine, but I think it is fair to say that not every principle would work for every topic, student, or environment.\u00a0 Does this mean that the <em>perfect <\/em>teaching style is a mix of many principles?\u00a0 If that is the case, how does one create the perfect blend?\u00a0 I have limited teaching experience (which is one reason I am taking the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology program), as I gain more experience I would like to assess the subject matter I teach and blend learning principles to see how well the blend works for both me as the instructor and the students.\u00a0 I think the same concept applies to learning theories, the right one or ones depends on the topic.\u00a0 In one of my previous <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/learning-theoriespick-one\/\">blog posts<\/a>, I discussed my use of constructivist learning theory (Moore, 2019).\u00a0 As I revisit information regarding theories, I realized that the collaborative problem solving theory would also fit the limited teaching\/coaching that I do in my current role.\u00a0 The steps outlined by Nelson (Nelson as cited in Merrill, 2002, p. 54) would help learners to feel confident in the lesson presented to them as they learn in order to bring that skill to the working world.<\/p>\n<p>While I have worked with Merrill\u2019s article (2002) before, I enjoyed revisiting it and seeing how my perspective has changed.\u00a0 I am looking forward to one day implementing these theories and principles in the classroom, and in curriculum design and development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>References<\/p>\n<p>Merrill, M. (2002). First principles of instruction. Educational Technology Research and Development, 50(3), 43-59.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I read articles that discuss different learning principles, techniques, and models, I keep wondering how one makes the right choice on which to use.\u00a0 Merrill (2002) discusses five principles in his article, each of which sound as though they would work just fine, but I think it is fair to say that not every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/how-is-leaning-best-accomplished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How is Learning best Accomplished?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0108\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}