Validation of Learning Theories in Their Relationship with Information and Communications Technology

Abstract

The paper presents the conceptual basis of the theories: Behaviorism, Gestalt, Cognitive Psychology, and the Historic-Cultural Psychology. The essential categories of these theories were validated in a population of 2704 courses at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT (USA). The research seeks the relationship of theories with course design and student learning process supported by ICTs. The results for a sample of 629 open courseware analyzed gives the conclusion that the concepts of the theory of Piaget are the most influential in the process of eLearing of students in a 49.92%.

Techno self online learning PEVAR as a new learning alternative: Paradigm and construction

“…Validation is one way of verifying information. Definition of validation is a measure that shows the level of correctness of the information [56], [57]. Sources of information that have been discovered during the exploration stage must be verified.…”

Evaluation of a MOOC developed from educational principles based on behavioral theory

“…Just as Merril (2002; proposed a theoretical model in the context of instructional design, in the field of Psychology there are widely known theories to support actions in education, such as behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism (Lowyck, 2014). The behaviorist theory, in particular, has often been presented in recent publications on online education in a rather caricatured way (e.g., Capacho, 2018;Siemens, 2014), making references to characteristics of an initial version of behaviorism, not to contemporary neo-behaviorists concepts. Contemporary behaviorist concepts are not compatible with ideas of a human being as a blank slate, neither do they ignore events private to the individual, focus only on stimulus-response relationships, nor understand the student as a passive being, as indicated in some publications (e.g., Radianti et al, 2020;Siemens, 2014).…”