1. Education in Healthcare
Microlearning Sessions by Nursing Education Network

2. Key Learning Outcomes
Introduce and provide an overview of education theories:
Constructivism
Experiential Learning
Communities of Practice (CoP’s)

3. Constructivism Scaffold Learning. Blooms Taxonomy.
Benner (1984) “Novice to expert” or Bondy (1983) “dependent to independent”.
Clinical supervision, constructive feedback and reflection.
Key Reference: Nursing Education Network. (2019). Novice to Expert: Constructivism in Nursing.

4. Experiential Learning
“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ― John Dewey
“Learning is best conceived as a process, not in terms of outcomes” (Kolb, 2008).

5. Communities of Practice (CoP’s)
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Communities of Practice (CoP’s)
Socio-cultural Perspective: part of being human is the willingness or desire to form communities, and through these is the essential component of learning opportunity and process.
“Social learning systems, to create a view of knowing and practice as meaning” (Wenger, 2000)
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6. References Benner, P. (1984). From novice to expert. Menlo Park.
Fenwick, T. J. (2001). Experiential Learning: A Theoretical Critique from Five Perspectives. Information Series No. 385.
Knowles, M. S., Holton III, E. F., & Swanson, R. A. (2014). The adult learner: The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development. Routledge.
Kolb, A. Y., & Kolb, D. A. (2008). Experiential Learning Theory: A Dynamic, Holistic Approach to Management Learning. Journal of Education and Development, 17(9),
Krathwohl, D. R. (2002). A revision of Bloom’s taxonomy: An overview. Theory into practice, 41(4),
Microlearning: Learning on the go.
Wenger, E. (2000). Communities of practice and social learning systems. Organization, 7(2),
Wenger, E. & Wenger-Trayner, B. (2015) Introduction to communities of practice: A brief overview of the concept and its uses.
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