For the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt (1990), who coined the expression, anchored learning is related to situated cognition, authentic learning, and experiential learning. The theoretical and empirical background of anchored instruction starts back with Whitehead‟s inert knowledge problem (The Aims of Education and other essays, 1929 – “knowledge that can usually be recalled when people are explicitly asked to but is not used spontaneously in problem solving even though it is relevant”, p. 2) and Dewey‟s concept of knowledge as a tool (How we think, 1933).