This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
what_is_learning [2011/09/06 15:46] jpetrovic [Definitions of Learning] |
what_is_learning [2023/06/19 18:03] |
||
---|---|---|---|
Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
- | ====== 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."(([[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning|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."(([[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." ((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.)) | ||
- | * |