Individually authored publications have offered similar statements. After completing a major study on redesigning higher education, Lion Gardiner noted that society's leaders in business, industry and government have identified several important kinds of learning needed by citizens and workers in the years ahead. It is clear that these and many other voices in higher education feel a need for and are calling for a new look at what students learn in higher education. The several possible answers to these two questions have resulted in the model of learning shown in Figure 1. Hence, one of the most common things people learn about in college is about phenomena.
Ideas organize and give significance to information and observations about phenomena.
They allow us both to create explanations of why events occur and to offer predictions of what will happen under certain circumstances. Third, courses can help a student learn about his or her own SELF . Sometimes this is because of the content of the course, sometimes because of distinctive ways of learning offered by the course, e.g., keeping a journal. Figure 1 above and the commentary below propose five distinct kinds of change that are possible in significant learning. Thinking can be and has been described in many ways.