HPE 801 Advanced Theories in HPE
This course addresses major historical and contemporary theories of learning and motivation and their instructional implications. The course will build upon instruction from Learning Theories I and include an emphasis on expertise, cognition, and complexity theories along with their application to HPE settings. Social theories that pertain to these topics will also be included. The course provides learners with the opportunity to advance their understanding of educational theory, research, and practice. Moreover, this course is designed to involve participants in open and critical discussions of a wide range of theoretical perspectives, to include those covered in Learning Theories I. This course is designed to help learners become metacognitively reflective, analytical professionals who understand and cogently articulate both the theoretical and practical dimensions of health professions education (HPE).
Course Goals: Successful learners in this course will be able to: 1. Compare and contrast a spectrum of learning theories; 2. Use theory to ground their learning, teaching, and assessment experiences in the research-based literature; 3. Describe how to study theories from other fields and propose revisions, as needed, for HPE contexts; and 4. Develop and defend their own personal philosophy of learning, teaching, and assessment that is based on relevant theory and research.
Learning Objectives
- State the assumptions of various theories that pertain to learning and its assessment to include expertise, (meta) cognition, and complexity.
- Describe the role of social, cultural, and other environmental factors on learning and learning theories discussed.
- Compare and contrast the implications of the notion of learning transfer through the lenses of expertise, cognition, and social theories to include complexity.
- Describe and defend a personal philosophy for education.