Educational Digital Storytelling and Learning Theories

Abstract

A key purpose of education is to achieve learning since learning plays a key role in the development of human society. There are many definitions of what learning is, with the common thread being that learning is capturing changes in an individual's behavior due to experience (De Houwer, Barnes-Holmes & Moors, 2013). A learning theory aims to describe how people learn, including the mechanisms and processes involved. Educational digital storytelling is a teaching strategy based on contemporary learning theories. The focus of this article is the relationship between educational digital storytelling activities and some important and recognized contemporary learning theories, namely: (a) constructivism, (b) social constructivism, (c) constructionism, (d) narrative theory, (e) technological pedagogical content knowledge theory, (f) cognitive theory of multimedia learning, (g) discovery learning and (h) andragogy theory.