Unit 2: Overview
Congratulations on completing unit 1! Unit 2 continues the three general themes of the course featured in the previous unit: broad insights into how people learn; specific perspectives on instructional design, and connections between these insights and perspectives with instructional design approaches and tools. In particular, broad insights in unit 2 build on the three key findings of learning research by recognizing another major goal of education: to prepare learners for new problems and settings, or transfer. Drawing on this foundation, unit 2 also considers the following seven specific theoretical perspectives and applications:
- Constructionism, Learning by Design, & Project Based Learning: http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Constructionism,_Learning_by_Design,_and_Project_Based_Learning
- Resource-based learning
- Case-Based Learning
- Problem-Based Learning
- Six C’s of Motivation
- Teaching and Learning in Affective Domain