Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

• assess personal learning styles and capabilities, using a learning file in which to record progress

• describe the main definitions of learning as a process, and the role played by memorising, understanding and doing

• explain the three main categories of theories about learning, namely the acquisitive, constructivist and experiential models of learning

• discuss the main conceptions of managing as an activity, and how systems thinking and practice benefit from learning by experience.