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===== Definitions of Learning ===== | ===== Definitions of Learning ===== | ||
- | There is no single accepted definition of learning, since it depends on one's point of view. Most commonly accepted [[learning_paradigms|learning paradigms]] suggest learning is: | + | There is **no single accepted definition of learning**, since it depends on one's point of view or a //learning paradigm//. Most commonly accepted **[[learning_paradigms|learning paradigms]]** suggest learning is: |
* a visible change in one's behavior which can be measured((See: [[learning_paradigms:Behaviorism]].)) | * a visible change in one's behavior which can be measured((See: [[learning_paradigms:Behaviorism]].)) | ||
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* the process of connecting to information sources containing actionable knowledge and maintaining those connections((See: [[learning_paradigms: Connectivism]].)) | * the process of connecting to information sources containing actionable knowledge and maintaining those connections((See: [[learning_paradigms: Connectivism]].)) | ||
- | Some other definitions of learning we found useful are listed here: | + | Some **other definitions** of learning we found useful are listed here: |
- | * "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.]])) | + | * "//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.]])) | + | * "//the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying, practicing, being taught, or experiencing something: the activity of someone who learns.//"(([[http://www.learnersdictionary.com/search/learning|Merriam-Webster Learner's Dictionary: Learning.]] Retrieved September 6th, 2011.)) |
- | * "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." (([[http://books.google.com/books?id=A6UhKQEACAAJ|Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.]])) | + | * "//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.hr/books?id=u1gtAAAACAAJ|Lefrancois, G. R. Theories of Human Learning: What the Old Man Said. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thompson Learning. 2000.]])) |
+ | * "//a relatively permanent change in mental associations due to experience.//" (([[http://books.google.com/books?id=A6UhKQEACAAJ|Ormrod, J.E. Human learning (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall. 1999.]])) | ||