1. Understanding learning theories (which have a big influence on how we learn and how our education is structured) The Web, social media and smartphones have led to a blurring of the boundaries between the formal and informal, the professional and the personal situations of learning. That's why we need to assess the relevance of these different learning theories to teaching and learning in the network age. Behaviouralism (with instructional teaching approach) is best suited to topics where there are ‘right and wrong’ answers and for people with extremely good memories. A teacher acts as an expert. Cognitive constructivism suggests that actively discovering new information by individually doing things will lead to the construction of knowledge inside our brain. This approac is known as Experiential and the teacher acts as a guide, not as ‘the expert’. This approach is dependent on the existing knowledge of the learner (their current mental maps), which cannot alwa...