Theories of learning in educational development: Relocating the paradigmatic divide

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Alistair Inglis

Alistair Inglis of the Resource Based Learning Unit at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, offers a critique of the attack mounted by Terry Evans and Daryl Nation on ‘instructional industrialism’ in distance education. Inglis argues that learning theories deriving from both the behaviourist and cognitivist schools in psychology have been inadequately theorised by Evans and Nation, in particular with regard to their paradigmatic divide and their attack on instructional design accordingly misconceived.