Personality and Team work

Learning Defined

Learning is the gut feeling you get you have when you see something new and  feel you've got to find out what this is. I call it knowledge hunger.

• “Learning is the relatively permanent change in a person’s knowledge or behavior due to experience. This definition has three components: 1) the duration of the change is long-term rather than short-term; 2) the locus of the change is the content and structure of knowledge in memory or the behavior of the learner; 3) the cause of the change is the learner’s experience in the environment rather than fatigue, motivation, drugs, physical condition or physiologic intervention.”
  –From Learning in Encyclopedia of Educational Research, Richard E. Mayer 
• “We define learning as the transformative process of taking in information that—when internalized and mixed with what we have experienced—changes what we know and builds on what we do. It’s based on input, process, and reflection. It is what changes us.”
  –From The New Social Learning by Tony Bingham and Marcia Conner
• “It has been suggested that the term learning defies precise definition because it is put to multiple uses. Learning is used to refer to (1) the acquisition and mastery of what is already known about something, (2) the extension and clarification of meaning of one’s experience, or (3) an organized, intentional process of testing ideas relevant to problems. In other words, it is used to describe a product, a process, or a function.”
  –From Learning How to Learn: Applied Theory for Adults by R.M. Smith
• “Acquiring knowledge and skills and having them readily available from memory so you can make sense of future problems and opportunities.”
  From Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel

Let us consider some Learning Theories