According to my opinion, learning is the knowledge acquired by the individual in everything. Education is a set of organized processes used by the teacher. The learner acquires the primary bases of knowledge.
In my opinion, learning, is building on the knowledge we already have, and teaching, is sharing this knowledge with others to enable them to learn.
Hi!
Actually a very good question!
Teaching is about motivating, supporting, scaffolding learning. Learning is the process of the individual although learning together with other often is easier.
If we asked anybody on the street, they would probably distinguish teaching and in this or a similar way.
Having that in mind, it is a peculiar phenomenon that by experts and people in the education field, teaching nowadays often is called learning. Expressions like Distance learning, online learning, e-learning, blended learning etc are usually mostly about teaching organisation and strategies.
This is very odd. Teaching does far from always cause learning, and never by itself only. There is also a lot of learning without teaching. Is there a belief that optimal teaching is a simple transfer process making learning inevitable, that is a ghost behind this?
If ”blended learning” is theory and practice about ICT-integrated teaching, what remains to call the study of students own strategies for using ICTs when learning? (Perhaps ”blended teaching” - that term is not taken ;-) ) . Oliver and Trigwell writes in the classic paper”Can blended learning be redeemed” 2006 that the word learning should be given back to the learner. Couldn’t agree more.
I have in my thesis some statistics concerning teaching and learning expressions on the Internet in connection to ICTs (ch 3:2 and 4), and I have a presentation about all the optimistic terms a-learning, b-learning, c-learning etc etc - yes, they are there almost the whole alphabet with teaching methods called learning. Both attached.
Thesis From blended learning to learning onlife - ICTs, time and ac...
Data The learning alphabet - claims about what?
Learning is a process that can be intentional and unintended while education is all the actions intended by the teacher to complete the learning process . Thank you
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Teaching can be both formal and informal. Within a school, teaching takes place as formal education. The teacher teaches the student various things based on a syllabus. Informal teaching includes discipline and behavior as well. The teacher guides the student to behave in the proper manner, according to the cultural and social expectations.
Learning is not just confined to school. It captures the experiences in life as well. A person’s capacity to learn varies depending on different factors such as personality, intelligence level, motivation, and learning style. A person becomes more interested in learning when he is prompted by curiosity and intrinsic motivation.
Simply, learning is any process that people pass through to acquire knowledge, develop skills, and/or nurture attitudes. While teaching is the process that aims to help people learn.
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