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Instructional Design & Development

This guide was originally created by Dana Hettich.

Learning Theories

ACT-R (John Anderson)
Adult Learning Theory (P. Cross)
Algo-Heuristic Theory (L. Landa)
Andragogy (Malcolm Knowles)
Anchored Instruction (John Bransford)
Aptitude-Treatment Interaction (L. Cronbach & R. Snow)
Attribution Theory (B. Weiner)
Cognitive Dissonance Theory (L. Festinger)
Cognitive Flexibility Theory (R. Spiro)
Cognitive Load Theory (J. Sweller)
Component Display Theory (M. David Merrill)
Conditions of Learning (Robert Gagne)
Connectionism (Edward Thorndike)
Constructivist Theory (Jerome Bruner)
Contiguity Theory (Edwin Guthrie)
Conversation Theory (Gordon Pask)
Criterion Referenced Instruction (Robert Mager)
Double Loop Learning (C. Argyris)
Drive Reduction Theory (C. Hull)
Dual Coding Theory (A. Paivio)

Elaboration Theory (C. Reigeluth)
Experiential Learning (C. Rogers)
Functional Context Theory (Tom Sticht)
Genetic Epistemology (J. Piaget)
Gestalt Theory (M. Wertheimer)
GOMS (Card, Moran & Newell)
General Problem Solver (A. Newell & H. Simon)
Information Pickup Theory (J.J. Gibson)
Information Processing Theory (G.A. Miller)
Lateral Thinking (E. DeBono)
Levels of Processing (Craik & Lockhart)
Mathematical Learning Theory (R.C. Atkinson)
Mathematical Problem Solving (A. Schoenfeld)
Minimalism (J. M. Carroll)
Model Centered Instruction and Design Layering (Andrew Gibbons)
Modes of Learning (D. Rumelhart & D. Norman)
Multiple Intelligences (Howard Gardner)

Operant Conditioning (B.F. Skinner)
Originality (I. Maltzman)
Phenomenonography (F. Marton & N. Entwistle)
Repair Theory (K. VanLehn)
Script Theory (Roger Schank)
Sign Theory (E. Tolman)
Situated Learning (J. Lave)
Soar (A. Newell et al.)
Social Development (L. Vygotsky)
Social Learning Theory (A. Bandura)
Stimulus Sampling Theory (W. Estes)
Structural Learning Theory (J. Scandura)
Structure of Intellect (J. Guilford)
Subsumption Theory (D. Ausubel)
Symbol Systems (G. Salomon)
Triarchic Theory (R. Sternberg)
Transformational Learning (J. Mezirow)

Original list available from http://www.instructionaldesign.org/theories/.