ABSTRACT
Instructional designers are frequently asked, “to which learning theory do you subscribe?” And like the famously unanswerable question “do you still beat your wife?” no answer to the query generally seems satisfactory. Behaviorism, cognitivism, and social constructivism (see Jonassen, 1996) present significantly differing views of the educational universe. And although persuasive arguments are made that integrity of character requires an educator to adhere permanently to one view or another, I believe an individuals’ choice of a learning theoretic view of the world must always be as transient as it is pragmatic.
