This is a collection of the individual lectures that occurred throughout this course. Click on the lecture number to go to that individual page.
The Lectures
Lecture 1 - Intro & Overview
The Breadth of Educational Psychology
We spoke about what educational psychology is and explored ways in which educational psychology has an impact…
Lecture 2 - Learning
During the course of this lecture we covered 5 main psychological learning theories.
Lecture 3 - Intelligence
This lecture is all about what psychologists make of intelligence and the implications that this has on teaching and learning pedagogies. We cover…
Lecture 4 - Learning Styles
This lecture considered more about the different learning styles that children have or display. Really this is a lecture that shows how learning…
Lecture 5 - Social Sphere of Influence
We spoke in this lecture about:
The Genetic Component on Intelligence
Really we presented this research in order to show that the greatest influence…
Lecture 6 - Assessment
In this lecture we spoke about the way psychological theory has impacted on how education assesses their students and pupils. During this lecture we…
Lecture 7 - Designing an (our) Exam
After the last lecture, I had a number of comments, both on the blog and in email, that suggests that the last lecture was conceptually difficult to…
Lecture 8 - Special Learners
Define Abnormality
Literally 'abnormal' means 'to be away from the statistical norm'
Kinds of Specialness
Intellectual abnormalities
Physical…
Lecture 9 - Technology in Education
This lecture focussed more especially on the role that modern ICT has on teaching and learning activities.
The Wisdom of the Crowds
One of the…
Lecture 10 - Review Lecture
In this lecture we covered 4 questions that we asked in the very first lecture. I hoped that you guys might be able to work with the questions a bit…
Lecture 11 - Concrete Examples
In this lecture we covered concrete examples that the class gave to try and find out what psychological theories were being utilised. A number of you…
Lecture 12 - the final, final, final lecture
This lecture was very intimate, as there was only 5 of us in total. However, I think we still had some good insights for those that did attend. I'll…