Resources

I. Theories and Theorists	II. Virtual Library Research Tools
General resources Ausubel Bandura Behaviorism Bruner Cognitive Information Processing Constructivism Piaget Schema Theory Vygotsky	Indiana University Libraries Other Libraries Professional Associations Other Resources

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I. Theories and theorists

General resources on learning and cognition

• Theory Into Practice Database
• Theoretical Sources [for learning and cognition]
• About Learning
• Learning-Theories.com
• How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School (free to read on-line book)
• Other free to read on-line books (check under the education link, especially the education research and theory sub-category, though they are all interesting)
• Google Scholar (a search engine that allows you to look for scholarly articles on the web, ofcourse, any one can put something on the web, so you may want to know what the original source was)

Ausubel

• Subsumption Theory

Bandura

• Social Learning Theory

Behaviorism

• The Basics of Behaviorism
• About Skinner
• Operant Conditioning & Behaviorism
• Behaviorism History & John Watson

Bruner

• Overview

Cognitive information processing

• The Cognitive System
• Some attention and memory experiments for you to do (though I'm not sure I agree with all the explanations, the collection is interesting)

Constructivism

• Building an Understanding of Constructivism
• Constructivism:About 70 articles written by a number of renowned constructivist
• Integrating constructivism and technology newsletters

Piaget

• Genetic Epistemology
• Cognitive Development Applications
• Beyond the antimony of Piaget and Vygotsky
• Cognitive Development

Schema Theory

• Schema Theory (drawn from D’Andrade 1995)

Vygotsky

• Zone of Proximal Development
• Vygotsky's Developmental Theories and the Adulthood of Computer Mediated Communication: A Comparison and an Illumination.

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II. Virtual Library/Research Tools

Indiana University Libraries

• IU Library
• IU Education Library
• Indexes to Journal and Newspaper Articles at IU
• IU Bloomington Libraries
• IUCAT: IU Libraries' Online Catalog

Other libraries

• Distance Education Library
• Education Virtual Library
• EINet Education
• Internet Public Library
  
• WWW Virtual Library

Professional associations

• American Educational Research Association
• American Psychological Association
• Cognitive Science Society
• National Education Association
• United States Distance Learning Association
• Web of Asynchronous Learning Networks

Other resources

• AskERIC (Education Information)
• ERIC Clearinghouse Bookstore
• Indiana College Network
• Merriam-Webster Dictionary

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