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====== What is Learning ====== | ====== What is Learning ====== | ||
- | =====Learning is:===== | + | ===== Definitions of Learning ===== |
- | * the acquisition of knowledge by study. | + | There is no single accepted definition of learning, since it depends on one's point of view((See: [[learning_paradigms|Learning paradigms]])). Some of the definitions we found useful are listed here. |
- | * "all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease." (Lefrancois, G. R. Theories of Human Learning: What the Old Man Said. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning. 2000.) | + | |
- | * "a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. This refers to a change in behavior, an external change that we can observe." (Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.) | + | Learning is: |
- | * "a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience. This definition focuses on a change in mental associations, an internal change that we cannot observe." (Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.) | + | |
- | * the sudden or slow acquisition of insight into the rules governing certain relationships in the environment. | + | * a visible change in one's behavior which can be measured((See: [[learning_paradigms:Behaviorism]].)) |
+ | * active process of acquisition (including insight, information processing, memory, perception) of new knowledge and developing adequate mental constructions((See: [[learning_paradigms:Cognitivism]])) | ||
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+ | * "acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information."(([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning|Wikipedia: Learning. Retrieved September 6th, 2011. Updated August 11th, 2011.]])) | ||
+ | * "all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease."(([[http://books.google.com/books?id=w1IORQAACAAJ|Lefrancois, G. R. Theories of Human Learning: What the Old Man Said. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning. 2000.]])) | ||
+ | * "a relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience. This refers to a change in behavior, an external change that we can observe." ((Behaviorist definition. [[http://books.google.com/books?id=A6UhKQEACAAJ|Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.]])) | ||
+ | * "a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience. This definition focuses on a change in mental associations, an internal change that we cannot observe." ((Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.)) | ||
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