The characteristics of learning activity

Learning programmes should use educational technology, where appropriate, to enhance learning so that this learning may be:

  • active
  • participative
  • investigative
  • varied
  • collaborative and co-operative
  • supportive
  • learner-centred
  • differentiated
  • underpinned by essential outcomes

It should encourage

  • independent learning
  • personal autonomy
  • critical thinking
  • self-esteem
  • investigation
  • imagination
  • creativity
  • the construction of knowledge in terms of information, concepts, skills, attitudes and values
  • problem-solving, decision-making and evaluation skills
  • whole-brain learning, celebrating a diversity of learning styles
  • the uncovering of content construction and not merely the covering of content.