Hi Fred,<div><br></div><div>You're right in that the needs of corporate learning & development, and Higher Education, are different. But I would not go so far as to say that corporate = behaviourism, and HE = cognitivism</div>
<div><br></div><div>There are four different theories of learning: behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism and connectivism. All of them are perfectly valid models of how learning works. Each context for learning might need to use a different balance of the four approaches.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For example, the post-grad course I was doing primarily used a constructivist model. Much current thinking about workplace learning is based on social-learning experiences within a connectivist approach. Behaviourist and cognitivist approaches both have their place in workplace learning too.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Similarly, there will be times in HE that a behaviourist approach is required (I'm thinking here of experimental methods in a Physics degree).</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, they're chalk and cheese - but we can still learn from each other.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 February 2010 12:32, Fred Riley <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Fred.Riley@nottingham.ac.uk">Fred.Riley@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> Quite. The idea that HE is somehow immune from the need for<br>
> faster or cheaper is naïve.<br>
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</div>The point is, and this goes back to at least 1992 when I got started in educational technology (as was), that corporate and HE needs are fundamentally different: in brief, companies want training, HE wants education. One is behaviourist, the other cognitive. In the corporate world, CBT (as was) is a way of cutting training budgets and substituting for people; in HE, CAL (as was) is a way of improving the student experience and is complementary to teachers.<br>
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In the corporate world, the bottom line is the bottom line - profit or loss. In HE, the bottom line is producing graduates capable of independent meta-thinking in a wide variety of environments. Chalk and cheese.<br>
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