What is Learning

Definitions of Learning

There are numerous definitions of learning depending on one's point of view. Some of the definitions we found useful are listed here.

Learning is:

“acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and may involve synthesizing different types of information.”1) Wikipedia: Learning. Retrieved September 6th, 2011. Updated August 11th, 2011.

the acquisition of knowledge by study.

“all relatively permanent changes in potential for behavior that result from experience but are not due to fatigue, maturation, drugs, injury, or disease.”2) 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.” 3) 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.” 3)