• Explain how contemporary and emerging theories of learning have evolved from traditional schools of learning (behaviorist, cognitivist, constructivist)
• Identify a theory of learning that most closely aligns with your teaching philosophy and explain how it might influence your delivery of online instruction
• Evaluate how the learning theory that you selected might support the online student experience.

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