Free Download (click here) – Principles of Learning Framework (Weibell, 2011)

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Principle of Learning #1 – Potential

This post presents a brief elaboration on the first of seven principles of learning: Principle #1 – Potential. Humans are endowed with an inherent potential for increase in capacity, the establishment of habit, and the definition of being.  This is the first principle of learning, upon which all others are predicated. That every person has …

Principle of Learning #2 – Target

This post presents a brief elaboration on the second of seven principles of learning: Principle #2 – Target. Human potential may be channeled intentionally toward a specific, predetermined target of learning, or will otherwise follow incidentally from the conditions to which a person is subjected. This second principle, which has been added to the framework as …

Principle of Learning #3 – Change

This post presents a brief elaboration on the third of seven principles of learning: Principle #3 – Change. Learning is a specific type of change, which is governed by principles of (a) repetition, (b) time, (c) step size, (d) sequence, (e) contrast, (f) significance, and (g) feedback. These seven principles of change are the inner mechanism …

Principle of Learning #4 – Practice

This post presents a brief elaboration on the fourth of seven principles of learning: Principle #4 – Practice. Principles of change are activated and aligned with learning targets through models of practice, exercise, or experience. It is in the componential features of practice activities that principles of change are realized and are aligned with learning targets (Figure …

Principle of Learning #5 – Context

This post presents a brief elaboration on the fifth of seven principles of learning: Principle #5 – Context. Learning is facilitated by a context of practice that is the same as, or accurately represents, the context of performance. Just as models of practice are most effective when they are the same as, or genuinely approximate, the …

Principle of Learning #6 – Engagement

This post presents a brief elaboration on the sixth of seven principles of learning: Principle #6 – Engagement. Learners will often engage in certain activities as a matter of habit, though they are also influenced by their current capacity to engage, as well as factors of motivation and inhibition related to the activity as a whole, …

Principle of Learning #7 – Agency

This post presents a brief elaboration on the seventh of seven principles of learning: Principle #7 – Agency. Learners are not passive recipients of learning, but active agents with the ability to choose how they will apply their attention and effort, and to choose what learning activities they will engage in. Others may exercise their agency …

7 Principles of Learning – the short version

Seven principles of learning, the foundation of a Principles-of-Learning Framework (Weibell, 2011), form the basis of this blog. Future posts will elaborate on these seven principles of learning and explore how the Principles-of-Learning Framework can be applied to a mass educational transformation that is now taking place in public education---toward student-centered, data-informed, teacher-led, personalized learning …

The Principles-of-Learning Framework

(Originally Published June 2011) Principles of Learning: A Conceptual Framework for Domain-Specific Theories of Learning Christian J. Weibell (we’-bull) Doctor of Philosophy This study is predicated on the belief that there does not now exist, nor will there ever exist, any single theory of learning that is broad enough to account for all types of …