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THE DESIGN BOOK FOR ONLINE LEARNING

October 3, 2019

While teaching and studying are constantly evolving, learning itself has not changed. This section outlines the necessary psychological prerequisites for learning1 . Feel free to skip over this section if you are primarily looking to learn about the practical tools rather than the research that underpins them. Learning is an intensely complex human phenomenon, and distilling it down to a few features will thus necessarily distort it. Such distillation is, however, necessary for the purposes of this design book, as it enables the development of teaching in a research-based manner. The fundamental question this section poses is as follows: What are the psychological factors without which learning is impossible?

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