Learning Theory

Learning theory describes how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning.

Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a worldview, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained. 

There are five primary educational learning theories: behaviourism, cognitive, constructivism, humanism, and connectivism.

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