Learning Theories and Electrical Engineering
LTEC612 , Introduction to E-learning, introduced us to the learning theories. What are the learning theories and is there a connection between them and Electrical Engineering? Early on it was thought that learning is either there or it is not, what I call digital thinking. Digital thinking is thinking in ones and zeros, just like digital logic in Electrical Engineering. In Electrical Engineering, presence of electrons is considered negative charge and its absence is considered positive charge. Digital logic defines absence of electrons as positive voltage or a logic 1 while the presence of electrons is defined as zero voltage or logic 0. It is either there or not there. It did not matter what the magnitude of the voltage is or how many electrons accumulated. Christopher Chase calls it linear thinking and made a distinction with systems thinking in a presentation (Chase, 1997). The earliest learning theory, Behaviorism, resonates this thinking. This school of thought req...