The 30-Second Encyclopedia of Learning and Performance: A Trainers Guide to Theory, Terminology, and Practice

Schank, Roger, on e-learning, 80

schema, as individual mindset, 76, see also paradigm

Schon, Donald

and cognitivism, 68

on double loop learning, 41, 46

on learning organizations, 109

scientific management theory, 120–122

self-directed learning, in adult learning, 54

Senge, Peter, on learning organizations, 110

sequencing, see also chunking

branching, 28–29

linear, 28

scenario-based, 29

spiral, 29

Shannon, Claude, on the information age, 99

Shewhart, Walter, and Total Quality Management (TQM), 142

Six Sigma, and TQM, 143

skills, as domain of learning, 21

Skinner, B.F.

on behaviorism, 59, 62–64

on cognitivism, 68–69

on operant conditioning, 63–64

and programmed instruction, 10

SMEs (or subject matter experts), 11

Socrates

and concept of knowledge within, 149–150

dialogical model of, 150–151

Socratic method, 150–151

spiral model of information architecture, 163–164

Stolovitch, Harold

on performance improvement, 135, 136

on performance technology, 89

strategic planning, 141–142

structured programming, 108

structured writing, 89–90

synchronous courses, 80

systems

core vision of, 39

definition of, 38

living systems theory, 40

machine systems theory, 39–40

types of, 39

systems thinking, 38, 44, 45

Aristotle as founder of, 154