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-====== What is Learning ====== 
  
-===== Definitions of Learning ===== 
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-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. 
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-Learning is: 
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-  * a visible change in one's behavior which can be measured((See:​ [[learning_paradigms:​Behaviorism]].)) 
-  * the active process of acquisition (including insight, information processing, memory, perception) of new knowledge and developing adequate mental constructions((See:​ [[learning_paradigms:​Cognitivism]].)) 
-  * a natural desire of human beings, a mean of self-actualization and developing personal potentials((See:​ [[learning_paradigms:​Humanism]].)) 
-  * an active, socially enhanced process of knowledge construction based on one's own subjective interpretation of the objective reality((See:​ [[learning_paradigms:​ Constructivism]].)) 
-  * the process of connecting to information sources containing actionable knowledge and maintaining those connections((See:​ [[learning_paradigms:​ Connectivism]].)) 
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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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