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COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
COURSE CONTENT:
1. Introduction
1.1. Description of facilitating learning
1.2. Traditional and nontraditional facilitation of learning
1.3. Responsibilities of a facilitator of learning
3. Learning Theories
3.1. Behaviorism
3.1.1. Connectionism Theory by Edward L. Thorndike
3.1.2. Classical Conditioning by Ivan Pavlov
3.1.3. Original Behaviorism by John B. Watson (Overview)
3.1.4. Practical Behaviorism by Edwin R. Guthrie (Overview)
3.1.4. Physical Behaviorism by Clark Hull (Overview)
3.1.5. Operant Conditioning by Bhurrus F. Skinner
3.2. Neo-Behaviorism
3.2.1. Cognitive Behaviorism by Edward C. Tolman
3.2.2. Social Learning Theory by Albert Bandurra
3.3. Cognitivism
3.3.1. Gestalt Psychology by Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, Kurt Kofka
3.3.2. Information Processing Theory
3.3.3. Meaningful Verbal Learning/Subsumption Theory by David Ausubel
3.3.4. Conditions of Learning by Robert Gagné
3.3.5. Constructivism
3.3.5.1. Constructivism by Jerome Bruner
3.3.5.2. Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget
3.3.5.3. Socio-cultural Theory by Lev Vygotsky
3.3.5.4. Knowledge Construction and Concept Learning
3.3.6. Transfer of Learning
3.3.7. Taxonomy of Objectives by Benjamin Bloom
3.3.8. Problem Solving
3.3.9. Creativity
3.3.9.1. Flow Theory of Creativity by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
(Overview)
3.3.9.2. Criteria of Creativity by Edward Paul Torrance
3.4. Other Learning Theories (optional)
3.4.1. Theory of Andragogy by Malcolm Knowles
3.4.2. Situated Learning Theory by Jean Lave
METHODOLOGIES:
1. Lecture Discussion
2. Cooperative Learning
3. Discovery Learning
4. Demonstration
5. Behavioral Analysis/Assessment
GRADING SYSTEM: