Independent Learning: Formal and Informal Ways to Learn
INDEPENDENT LEARNING
Learning is a way to access information through different sources, different people acquire different methods or strategies to add up their knowledge or to keep themselves up to date. By learning one can acquire new or modify existing knowledge, skills or values and can enhance the power of information, learning ability is the main quality processed by humans but it is present in animals also to some extent, basically learning comes with the experience, every one learns something from their experience either the experience is good or bad and by sharing those experiences, make others to learn also. Schooling or education is the basic way for human beings to start learning. Education is the formal way of learning, in which students learn through teacher - student partnership in schools, colleges and universities. Otherwise humans have curiosity to explore the world during which they come to know about new things, this curiosity and eager to explore eventually leads them to learn and experience new things. New born does not know anything but slowly as it grows start learning, how to crawl, how to walk, how to talk, how to play and how to respond. Independent learning is the way or method of education in which students have to learn through self-motivation or self-direction and make efforts to find out ways to learn and get experience, this type of learning encourage students to rely more on themselves, to make decisions, to direct themselves accordingly, and become more clear about their education and control their learning process. It’s not like that teachers have no role in independent learning, instead they have to play the role of guide enabling and supporting students in the right direction. The important ingredients needed for independent learning is access to information and the power to decide which type of information is needed, first of all you have to be motivated enough to make effort to collect information
Learning is a way to access information through different sources, different people acquire different methods or strategies to add up their knowledge or to keep themselves up to date. By learning one can acquire new or modify existing knowledge, skills or values and can enhance the power of information, learning ability is the main quality processed by humans but it is present in animals also to some extent, basically learning comes with the experience, every one learns something from their experience either the experience is good or bad and by sharing those experiences, make others to learn also. Schooling or education is the basic way for human beings to start learning. Education is the formal way of learning, in which students learn through teacher - student partnership in schools, colleges and universities. Otherwise humans have curiosity to explore the world during which they come to know about new things, this curiosity and eager to explore eventually leads them to learn and experience new things. New born does not know anything but slowly as it grows start learning, how to crawl, how to walk, how to talk, how to play and how to respond. Independent learning is the way or method of education in which students have to learn through self-motivation or self-direction and make efforts to find out ways to learn and get experience, this type of learning encourage students to rely more on themselves, to make decisions, to direct themselves accordingly, and become more clear about their education and control their learning process. It’s not like that teachers have no role in independent learning, instead they have to play the role of guide enabling and supporting students in the right direction. The important ingredients needed for independent learning is access to information and the power to decide which type of information is needed, first of all you have to be motivated enough to make effort to collect information