 Welcome to the module on Effective Learning. What is Effective Learning by Academy of Learning Career College? When learning is successful, there is a relatively permanent change in what people are able to do because of their practice or experience. One goal of education is to change what people know in the hopes of changing what they do. This means that memory plays a key role in learning. In this section, we explore how human memory works, what that means for effective learning strategies and how to encourage learners to choose appropriate strategies. Of course, learning involves much more than memory alone, including social factors we often learn in a community and different kinds of learning, including skills and ways of thinking, not just memorizing facts. This section draws upon research on learning and memory as a starting point in helping the learner to learn more effectively. Learning Objectives After this subsection, you will be able to describe how human memory works, explain the memory processes and why they are important for learning, classify learning and studying problems by memory processes, explain why effective learning strategies work and develop questions to support learner's use of effective learning strategies.