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Constructivism: Implications for the Design and Delivery of Instruction

@inproceedings{Duffy1996ConstructivismIF,
  title={Constructivism: Implications for the Design and Delivery of Instruction},
  author={Thomas M. Duffy and Donald J. Cunningham and David H. Jonassen},
  year={1996},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:5632597}
}
Constructivism! The increase in frequency with which this word appears in the discourse of educational research, theory, and policy is truly remarkable. Unfortunately much of the discussion is at the level of slogan and cliche even bromide. "Students should construct their own knowledge" is being reverentially chanted throughout the halls of many a school/college/department of education these days, and any approach that is other than constructivist is characterized as promoting passive, rote… 
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