Learning
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Learning is the process of acquiring knowledge or skill through study, experience or teaching. It is a process that depends on experience and leads to long-term changes in behavior potential. Behavior potential describes the possible behavior of an individual (not actual behavior) in a given situation in order to achieve a goal.
Short term changes in behavior potential, such as fatigue, do not constitute learning. Some long-term changes in behavior potential result from aging and development, rather than learning.
Harnessing learning as process is becoming very important to large scale innovation management. An individual's personal purpose is key to that person applying learning to new behavior in their work or their life. As they are exposed to new information, their willingness to apply their newfound knowledge is key to creating sustained value. Organizational change results from behavior potential being realized.
Education is the conscious attempt to promote learning in others.
Here are a few theories and subcategories of learning:
- Cognition
- Experiential education
- Erudition
- Formulating knowledge for learning
- Instructional technology
- Motor learning
- Language education
- Lifelong education
- Learning music by ear
- Learning disability
- Learning psychology
- Learning styles
- Learning theory (education)
- Organizational learning
- Observational learning
- Reading