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The learning process

"Instead of viewing learners as passively recording the stimuli that the teacher presents, learning is viewed as an active process that occurs within the learner and which can be influenced by the learner.

Instead of viewing the outcome of learning as depending mainly on what the teacher presents, the outcome of learning is supposed to depend jointly on what information is presented and how the learner processes that information.

Hence there are two different kinds of activities that influence the encoding process

1. teaching strategies, such as the teacher presenting certain material at a certain time in a certain way; and
2. learning strategies, such as the learner actively organising or elaborating or predicting about the presented material."

Weinstein, C. F. & Mayer, R. F. (1986). The teaching of learning strategies. In Wittrock, M. C. Handbook of research on teaching. 3rd Ed. p.316

 

 

 

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