Managing Your Own Learning

"Include in your plan for learning the related learning you will need outside your field so that you can communicate better, broaden your perspective, and be more creative and effective."

"Preoccupation with your characteristics and limitations as a learner may lead to a reluctance about learning that you cannot afford in this new era."

"In the Information Age, learning is not the accumulation of miscellaneous bits of information, but the subtle set of skills involved in knowing what to do with information."

"Shaping the learning through small steps is the key to behavioral learning."

"When it is necessary to attend closely to something, we have a rather remarkable ability to focus on what we want to see or hear while filtering out the rest."

"There is an art of inquiry, and it is learned best by actually engaging in asking questions under expert guidance."

"The mind needs some system for dealing with the complexity posed by problem solving and decision making."

"To function well, groups need some of both types of communication?task and process. "

"In military or emergency preparedness training, one hopes never to use what was learned. For these situations, learning in virtual realities is a welcome alternative to the real situation."

"Learning from experience involves a cycle, some phases, a going out and coming back, and, above all, a process of reflection."

"Learning is a many-sided activity and there is no one "best way." The best way is the way that is most likely to bring about the results you want."

"In the traditional school or university programs that most of us experienced, information was brought to us. Learners in the new era must actively seek the information they need."