After many years of watching the industry I have finally figured out the path to Educational stardom.
First restate the bloody obvious, repackage it by adding some obscure terminology then slap a new name on it – preferably something that will look good on the title of a book or publication.   Tee up a conference or two (try to get on the organising committee)  and ‘Bob’s your uncle”.
The problem with this plethora of theories is they cloud the real issues for the day to day teachers.

To be honest, if you want the biggest bang for your buck, go read Bloom, then have a serious look at what you’re doing, then fix it.

If you don’t know Bloom (or haven’t looked at him for a while) have a look at this reworking of Blooms taxonomy into a wheel.

How does the traditional based lecture/exam model fit into this?

Bloom's Taxonomy as a wheel

Bloom’s Taxonomy as a wheel

Includes categories (purple), key words (orange) and suggested activities (blue/green).    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougbelshaw/ / CC BY-SA 2.0
I nicked this from Doug Belshaws blog .  (I found it via Stephen Downes news feed) .
While we’re on the subject, which do you like the sound of more, “The Nichol Method” or “Nichol’s theory of learning”.   I’m sure I can nick something from Knowles without too many people noticing.