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 ====== What is Learning ======
-===== Learning Definitions =====
+===== Definitions of Learning =====
-There are numerous definitions of learning depending on the point of view. Some of them claim that learning is:
+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.
-  * the acquisition of knowledge by study.
+Learning is:
-  * "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.))
+  * 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]]))
+  * "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.))
-  * the sudden or slow acquisition of insight into the rules governing certain relationships in the environment.
+  *

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