Kate_eskesen's List: Learning Theories

• Instructionally Grounded
• ssential to ensure that the learning intervention
• must be based on sound instructional design principles.
• Reflectively Synthesized
• iven the experiential and collaborative nature of 3DLEs, the need for self-reflection and group-based synthesis of the experience should also be core to the design
• The environment that is created must be optimally suited to allow the participants to experience and internalize the learning objectives in a visceral way. The learning must be experiential and not transactional.
• The Experiential Principles
• Participant Centered
• In a 3DLE the participant has agency: their actions and interactions have consequential outcomes within the learning experience itself.
• In a traditional classroom setting, the learning context is pre-established. The participants are faced with an instructor, a projector, and a whiteboard
• Contextually Situated
• In a 3DLE, the opportunity to create an immersive environment mimicking the actual environment in which the work occurs is possible and preferable. The opportunity exist to create a “simulator” of the actual work environment and to work and learn within that simulator to practice the application of skills and knowledge.
• Establish motivation for sustained and engaged interaction within the 3DLE and a great way to do this is to make the learning discovery driven
• Discovery Driven
• selectively reveal information and incentives over time
• Providing the right level of strategic ambiguity or ill-structured problems within the situational context incents participants to become more engaged in the flow of the 3DLE
• establishing a set of minimal guidelines
• allowing participants to become actively engaged
• sustain participant motivation within the 3DLE
• discovering cues and clues along the way
• The success or failure of a 3DLE hinges upon the actions and interactions of participants as they engage in a series of episodic activities designed to surface teachable moments that synthesize the learning objectives associated with the intervention
• Action Oriented
• In 3DLEs the learning is not separated from the doing.
• Consequentially Experienced
• The old adage “If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again” is foundational in both instructional design and professional developmen
• Trial and error must be embedded into the 3DLE
• required to demonstrate their ability to perform a given task
• experience the consequence of their actions
• provided feedback related to the task to allow them to improve their performance on subsequent iterations.
• 3DLEs naturally enable participants to easily work together to achieve goals and learn from each other through collaboration
• Collaboratively Motivated
• collective experiential sense-makin
• .In 3DLEs learning shifts from structured teaching to social and situated peer-to-peer learning. Participants are simultaneously consumers of, and contributors to, the learning experience.

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