 What learning strategies are most helpful by Academy of Learning Career College? What learning strategies are most helpful depends partly on the task? Thus, the first question to ask is what is the goal of the task? What is helpful for simply remembering information is different than what is helpful for evaluating or creating information and so choosing a strategy depends on what the learner needs to do. However, based on the memory model introduced in the section entitled, How Does Human Memory Work? we can see that effective learning strategies will help learners to either encode information or retrieve it, or sometimes both. An important thing to note is that good learning strategies do not always make learning seem easier. Learning strategies that make learning seem easier, like reading, often do not help learners remember and use that information later. More often, learning strategies that seem a little more difficult are more effective for long-term learning. This is what educational psychologists call desirable difficulties. Effective strategies are both active and effortful on the part of the learner, and that can make learning seem difficult.