INTRODUCTION

Learning
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Learning is acquiring new or modifying
existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences and
may involve synthesizing different types of information. The
ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals and some
machines. Progress over time tends to follow learning curves.
Human learning may occur as part of education, personal
development, or training.
It may be goal-oriented and may be aided by motivation. The
study of how learning occurs is part
of neuropsychology, educational psychology, learning theory,
and pedagogy.
 Types of learning

1) Simple non-associative learning

*Habituation
*Sensitization
2)Associative learning
Classical conditioning
3)Imprinting
4)Observational learning
5)Play
6)Enculturation
7)Multimedia learning
ë)E-learning and augmented learning
9)Rote learning
10)Informal learning
11)Formal learning
12)Non formal learning
13)Non formal learning and combined approaches
14)Tangential learning
15)Dialogic learning
16)Domains of learning
17)Mathematical models of learning
 Learning as a product and learning process

Learning as a product
^Response of research
^ ³ knowing that and knowing what ³

Learning process
^Task-conscious or acquisition learning.
^ Learning-conscious or formalized learning.
Learning as a process - learning theory

The focus on process obviously takes us into the realm of learning

theories - ideas about how or why change occurs. On these pages
we focus on four different orientations (the first three taken from
Merriam and Caffarella 1991).
* the behaviorists orientation to learning
*the cognitive orientation to learning
*the humanistic orientation to learning
*the social/situational orientation to learning
As with any categorization of this sort the divisions are a bit
arbitrary: there could be further additions and sub-divisions to the
scheme, and there a various ways in which the orientations overlap
and draw upon each other.
 Learning theory (education)

1) Introduction
2) Behaviorism
* Classical conditioning
* Operant conditioning
3) Cognitivism

4) Constructivism
5) Informal and post-modern theories
6) Other learning throries
7) criticism
 Learning styles

] Introduction
2
odels
* David kolb·s
* Honey and
umford·s
* Anthony Gregorc·s
* Sudbury model of democratic education
* Fleming·s VAK/VARK model
* Other models
* A more recent evidence based model of learning
3) Assessment method
* learning style inventory
* other methods

4) Criticism

5) Application: learning style in the class room

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