Learning theories provides a pedagogical and andragogical basis for understanding how our students learn. Learning theories are conceptual frameworks describing how information is absorbed, processed, and retained during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in how understanding, or a world view, is acquired or changed and knowledge and skills retained.

 

Although there are many different approaches to learning, there are three basic types of learning theory:

Constructivist

Behaviorist

Cognitivist