Teaching is not rocket science; it is much, much harder than that.
—LAURILLARD, 2012, P. 3
Chapter 1: Educators, Learning Design and the Science of Learning
Learn more …
- Digital Promise: Learning Sciences (digitalpromise.org/initiative/learning-sciences)
- Course of Mind: An ISTE initiative (courseofmind.org)
- Skills for a changing world: The global movement to prepare students for the 21st century [Video] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ophdxMd5MU0 )
- Student learning that works: How brain science informs a student learning model. [White paper] (mcrel.org/student-learning-that-works-wp)
- The Learning Scientists’ podcast (learningscientists.org/learning-scientists-podcast)
- Edutopia: Cultivating Student Resilience by Marilyn Price-Mitchell (edut.to/2WKWGer)
Deep Dive
- Hoadley, C., & Van Haneghan, J. (2011). The Learning Sciences: Where they came from and what it means for instructional designers. Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (3rd ed., pp. 53-63). New York: Pearson.
- Learning Designer. The Learning Designer is a tool to help teachers and lecturers design teaching and learning activities and share their learning designs with each other. [Web site] www.ucl.ac.uk/learning-designer/
- National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. How People Learn II: Learners, Contexts, and Cultures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/24783
- Sawyer, R. K. (2008). Optimizing learning implications of learning sciences research. Innovating to learn, learning to innovate, 45, 35-98.