In my last question, I asked how much a year's worth of learning was. What I found was that there is a deeper question - what is learning? I would like to suggest that learning is everything that results in a change of behaviour, including cognitive behaviour. This then begs the question - What is it that we learn. My immediate response is facts, procedures, skills, concepts, models, how to learn, how to be sociable, how to think.
What's your opinion?
Learning is the process of acquiring new or expanding on an existing knowledge by an individual or establishment. The process of learning can take place in both formal or informal environment. The formal environment can be determined by sets of instructions provided / prepared an instructor within a defined location. With the advancement of technology in the current Information Age, learning can be determined by facilities such as learning platform (MOODLE) to reach out to learning in a collaborative way. On the other hand, informal Learning can take place in any environment and skills acquire may not necessarily lead to a formal qualification. In answering to the second part, people learn skills and this may be one that leads to the author receiving academic recognition through published work which can also be referred to by others at a later date. In other cases, we learn through trial and error and many a time this may be helpful in terms of developing our minds.
In my opinion everything starts from learning and each process is endedd by acquired knowlegde, in other words is due to learning, it's look like a spiral movement elevated us at new level
Learning is a phenomena which depends upon the learners behaviour, knowledge and ability. i do feel that learning is a continuous process where one has to learn, Delearn and Relearn goes on. Being a legendary of our field we do have the misconception that we had all the knowledge about the subject. Suddenly a new dimension arises and then we do realize that yes these are things which needs more to be learn. In second opinion i do feel Learning is just giving satisfaction to our Ego. It is more or less the Ego satisfaction phenomenon where the learner looks for learning and once it is attained the same knowledge become the energy booster of Ego.
Literally if learning is important then what is the difference between machine learning and human learning. The visible difference is that machine is prototype human being and whereas the man can add his already acclaimed knowledge with the learning process. i am bit excited by this wonderful question Dr. Mark.. Take care. Prof. Abay
I believe that learning is the development of new knowledge, skills, or attitudes as an individual interacts with information and the environment. It can take place anywhere and at anytime and extends throughout a lifetime.
I have an ulterior political motive for asking this and the previous question. There is a current trend in my country to quantify learning to check that we, as teachers have taught our students well. It is related to Hattie's work on effect size. My fear is that the process of quantifying learning will have unintended consequence because it focusses us on only that learning which is measurable rather than deeper meaningful learning. Understanding learning deeply may help us to avoid the consequences.
Dear Mark.
I met John Hattie and read his key works. I think his meta-analytical works are an important contribution to the field of education--a bigger picture of what global educational researchers have been doing.
I do not think that he tries to redefine what education or learning is. His quantitative claims did not change my ideals of education, for example.
Ref
Hattie, J. (2009). Visible learning : a synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement. London ; New York: Routledge.
I agree with others that learning is a continuous exercise and it denotes permanent change in behaviour and attitudes as a result of some training and education. What we learn in my view are knowledge, skills, and ideas that are ideally to be used for the purpose of transforming the society for better.
JaePark,
I do not think that Hattie tries to redefine learning, but his lack of clarity in this area leaves those with less scientific critical thinking to redefine it for him, often politicians, administrators or bureaucrats. That is exactly what worries me.
We can never reveal what happens when we gain knowledge unless we jump out of our cognitive space. We can't investigate ourselves by means of our own brain and consciousness. Or we can start an abstruse story about a "magnetic resonance imaging" of a brain...
Learning is raising one step forward in the journey of life and assimilating and incorporating its results for raisng the other step and so on!
Regards
Israr
Learning is the process of acquiring new or expanding on an existing knowledge by an individual or establishment. The process of learning can take place in both formal or informal environment. The formal environment can be determined by sets of instructions provided / prepared an instructor within a defined location. With the advancement of technology in the current Information Age, learning can be determined by facilities such as learning platform (MOODLE) to reach out to learning in a collaborative way. On the other hand, informal Learning can take place in any environment and skills acquire may not necessarily lead to a formal qualification. In answering to the second part, people learn skills and this may be one that leads to the author receiving academic recognition through published work which can also be referred to by others at a later date. In other cases, we learn through trial and error and many a time this may be helpful in terms of developing our minds.
Development and learning go hand in hand and I would call it a multi-dimentional process of growing consciousness. The process goes on at numerous levels and is influenced by many aspects such as body functions, emotions, psychological state, physical and social environment. The impact of influencing aspects may be even higher in the field of people with profound cognitive disabilities as they are very sensitive to sensory ques. The process of learning/growing consciousness typically goes on despite of age, place and cognitive level. Differences in the process concern focus, content, pace and amount.
Everything we do is learning, see for example GOOGLE Translator:
learning - gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.
After all, even mischief must be learned :-)
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