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Edgar Dale

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Edgar Dale, who lived from April 27, 1900 to March 8, 1985, was an American educator born in Benson, Minnesota, who died in Columbus, Ohio. He developed the Cone of Experience, also known as the Learning Pyramid, a model that relates different types of learning experience to degrees of retention. He made several contributions to audio and visual instruction, including a methodology for analyzing the content of motion pictures, and he is remembered in the atlas for his place in the history of audiovisual education.

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  • Theories and Approaches Developed: Cone of Experience, Lead
    Edgar Dale (April 27, 1900, in Benson, Minnesota, March 8, 1985, in Columbus, Ohio) was an American educator who developed the Cone of Experience, also known as the Learning Pyramid.
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    He made several contributions to audio and visual instruction, including a methodology for analyzing the content of motion pictures.
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Criticism emerged on early versions of the model such as Edgar Dale's Cone of Experience.
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