If Anyone Mentions Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle - Here's Where to Look

Are you doing a teaching degree or postgraduate certificate?  We have a library subscription to Sage Reference, and there's plenty to find when it comes to educational theory.  How about this, for starters - by David Kolb himself!

Experiential Learning Theory and Learning Styles

David A. Kolb

In: Encyclopedia of Management Theory

Edited by: Eric H. Kessler

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452276090.n84

Start by going to our e-books page and clicking on Sage.  It certainly works from inside RCS buildings, but if any of our staff or students have any difficulty logging in from outside, please do let us know.  You need to look for the "institutional" "Shibboleth" login and select the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Cambridge Books Online (also on our e-books page) is another great source of information on teaching and learning.  And everything comes with pre-packaged bibliographic details - the stuff you need to cite in footnotes or a bibliography.

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland - Collections of e-books

Don't lecture me: how students learn (an article on MindShift.kqed.com)

Interesting piece about current teaching and learning theory.   Here's how it begins:-

 

"Don’t Lecture Me: Rethinking How College Students Learn

"At the star-studded Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching (HILT) event earlier this month, where professors gathered to discuss innovative strategies for learning and teaching, Harvard’s professor Eric Mazur gave a talk on the benefits of practicing peer instruction in class, rather than the traditional lecture. The idea is getting traction. Here’s more about the practice [...]" 

Visit the KQED website to read this article

February 20, 2012  - article by  Emily Hanford, American RadioWorks