Reflections on Behaviorism, Cognitive Information Processing, and Constructivism in Distance Learning Introduction This paper introduces the three predominant theories of learning and instruction – behaviorism, cognitive information processing, and constructivism. Each is discussed briefly to provide a foundation for the remainder of the paper which evaluates each theory from the perspective of...

Rooted in behavioral theory, particularly the radical or selectivist behaviorism of B.F. Skinner (1953, 1954, 1966, 1968, 1974), the direct instruction (DI) approach to teaching is now well into its third decade of influencing curriculum, instruction, and research. It is also in its third decade of controversy. Our purpose is to present the DI model with the notion that the designer can and sho...

Already in the 1930s Skinner, Konorski and colleagues debated the commonalities, differences and interactions among the processes underlying what was then known as "conditioned reflexes type I and II", but which is today more well-known as classical (Pavlovian) and operant (instrumental) conditioning. Subsequent decades of research have confirmed that the interactions between the various learni...

This research aims to describe students’ behavior in using the internet while learning and analyze factors that change at State Senior High School 2 of Sungai Ambawang. The used a qualitative method obtain detailed comprehensive understanding their as media school. found student struggled concentrate during lesson. One was students played game, browsed other media, did online activities. data w...

This paper examines the methodological propositions of Quentin Skinner, whose influence on intellectual history, including history and philosophy science (HPS), cannot be disregarded. It is well known that Skinner’s method based John L. Austin’s theory speech acts. Nonetheless, very idea applying ordinary language to subject matter rests other assumptions form historiography. The focuses recons...

Following the research of Krishnamurthi et al. [KFG04] a tool chain is created which can be used to create models of aspects which can be checked modularly. This is done by adapting the AspectBench Compiler [ACH05] and using the Bandera [CDH00] model checking framework.