LEARNING

 

"One has learned when one has developed new understanding or capacity."

 A.H. Schoenfeld, 1999  

 

IMPORTANT LEARNER ASPECTS

• Capacities and Capabilities (refers to physiological and intellectual prerequisites, previous knowledge concerning the topic)
• Interests, learning strategies, metacognitions, conceptions of learning, motivation, emotions, attitudes, content, social competencies, etc.

2 FACTORS ESSENTIAL IN LEARNING

1. SOCIAL CONTACTS AND RELATIONSHIP TO PEOPLE (communities of practice, communities of communication, and cooperation;  family, classmates, teachers, peers, community members)

2. LEARNING OBJECT (learning materials - tools, videos, tape, multimedia products, physical objects, artifacts, and virtual learning tools)

*Environment in which learning takes place influences learning. It includes structure, condition, and access to the environment itself.

LEARNING GOALS

are a combination of:

1. Declarative Knowledge (Knowing What)

2. Skills (Knowing How)

3. Ability of l earners to use knowledge, skills, and personal, social, and/or methodological activities.

MULTIMEDIA CAN FOSTER DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF LEARNING:

 

1. Cognitive Aspects - information processing and understanding

2. Motivational Aspect of  Learning

3. Increase Collaborative/Social-cognitive aspects of learning

4. Learner's Deep Approach to Learning and consequently deep learning

MULTIMEDIA PROVIDE MANY OPPURTUNITIES FOR DIFFERENT ASPECT OF LEARNING:

1. Use several perception channels-anchor information processing with several senses.

2. Simulate complicated real experiments.

3. Visualize abstract contents.

4. Present processes in a dynamic forms.