Learning

Learning
Learning is any relatively permanent change in behavior that occurs
as a result of experience.
Learning occurs all the time.

If we want to describe, explain and predict behavior, we need to

understand how people learn.

Neil Fleming's Model

Auditory
Sense of hearing

Visual
Sense of vision

Kinesthetic
Touch and Feel

David Kolbs Model

Convergers
They are good at making practical applications of ideas and using deductive
reasoning to solve problems.[5]

Divergers
They are imaginative and are good at coming up with ideas

Assimilators
They are capable of creating theoretical models by means of inductive
reasoning.[5]

Accommodators
They are good at actively engaging with the world and actually doing things
instead of merely reading about and studying them.[5]

Operant Conditioning
Operant Conditioning argues:
Behavior is a function of its consequences.
People learn to behave to get something they want or to avoid something
they dont want.

Social-Learning Theory
Attentional Processes
People learn from a model only when they pay attention to its critical features.

Retention Processes
A model influence will depend on how well the individual remembers the models action
after the model is no longer readily available.
Motor Reproduction Processes
The processes of converting the watching of model into doing or performing the modeled
activities.
Reinforcement Processes
Behaviors that are positively rewarded will be given more attention, learned better and
performed more often.

Life Long Learning?

Books? Knowledge?
A to do list?

Start a Project
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The company you keep

Practice

Teach
Group Learning

Self Motivation

UK Vocational programs
Date back to 1950, 60 and 70s under apprenticeship and advanced
apprenticeship programs
NVQ and GNVQ is a parallel alternate education program in UK 1986

These programs are equivalent to regular degrees and focus on

outcome based learning