I chose Articulate 360 Rise as an e-learning authoring tool. Rise is a great tool to create responsive e-learning directly in to the web browser which also automatically adapts itself to mobile devices. It allows you to easily create lessons and quizzes in addition to integrating interactivity within the learning modules.
It turns out that Rise is a very user-friendly, intuitive tool. This in addition to the active Articulate community that is always available to answer questions and share experiences. Articulate provides numerous templates that can be reused and customized in addition to a very rich content library. I was really happy and excited to already be able to produce a mini e-learning experience after a couple of hours of experimenting and playing around with Rise.
I would say that Constructivism played a big role where, as a learner, I was an active participant in the learning experience. As I was exploring the tool, knowledge was being constructed as I kept building on prior knowledge to create new meaning. Also Cognitivism was obvious where knowledge was being actively built and I was continuously solving problems and processing new information to achieve my desired product. Connectivism was a key theory as surfing the internet, exploring previous experiences and connecting with the community were very important steps during the learning experience. Being an adult learner, Andragogy was obvious as I was deeply involved in the learning experience. It was very relevant to what I wanted to achieve and accordingly, problem-centered.
Now that I have more theoretical understanding of the underlying learning theories that result in a successful learning experience, I noticed that I'm now learning things in a more conscious manner where every time I'm learning a new thing I reflect on why this learning experience was successful or not and how it can be made better or more relevant. I often have a deeper understanding of the learning approach(es) on which the learning experience is based on and I'm always curious to see if it will work or not in the proposed context.