====== Cone of Experience ======

===== General =====

Cone of experience is an image describing **contribution of different types of learning experiences** introduced by 
[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Dale|Edward Dale]] in 1946.

===== What is cone of experience? =====

[[http://qwertyrob.blogspot.com/2008/08/you-will-only-remember-10-of-this.html|{{  :images:cone.jpg?330x400|Cone of Experience. Image borrowed from: http://qwertyrob.blogspot.com/... Click on the picture to follow the link.}}]]

Edward Dale's //Cone of experience// was first introduced in his book "Audio-visual methods in teaching" published in 1946. It is an image describing benefit of different types of learning experiences. The Cone was organized by starting with **most abstract experiences from its top**, changing to **most concrete experiences at its bottom**. In later editions of the book it was subjected to some minor changes, but the original cone image can be found [[http://www.robwaller.org/blog/uploaded_images/realdale-759265.jpg|here]].

The importance of Dale's cone of experience is in its assumptions of **how we learn more efficiently** and in **appliance** of such resources or activities **during the educational process**. Assumptions stated in this cone have been of interest to many later psychologists and [[learning_paradigms:cognitivism#learning_theories|cognitivist theories]].  

NOTE: **Bogus percentage numbers** have later been added to Dale's cone. They aren't however in any way related to the original Cone. A collection of bogus cones often used can be found in [[http://www2.potsdam.edu/betrusak/AECT2002/dalescone_files/dalescone.html.ppt|presentation]] of Betrus and Januszewski.


===== Keywords and most important names =====
  * **Cone of experience**
  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Dale|Edward Dale]]


===== Bibliography =====

[[http://media.openedu.com.cn/media_file/netcourse/asx/xdjyjs/public/05xgzy/13.pdf|Molenda, M. Cone of experience. Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. 2003.]]

[[http://web.utk.edu/~mccay/apdm/selusing/selusing_d.htm|The Cone of Experience. Alabama Professional Development Modules.]] Retrieved August 23th, 2011.


===== Read more =====

[[http://books.google.hr/books?id=lZdqAAAAMAAJ&q=Audio-visual+methods+in+teaching&dq=Audio-visual+methods+in+teaching&hl=hr&ei=4EV2TdPWH8rFswbQprGKBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA|Dale, Edgar. Audiovisual methods in teaching. Dryden Press, 1969.]]