Learning as a Generative Activity: Eight Learning Strategies that Promote Understanding

Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer's book "Learning as a Generative Activity" shares eight evidence-based learning strategies that promote understanding, including summarizing, mapping, drawing, imagining, self-testing, self-explaining, teaching, and enacting. These strategies target generative learning, in which learners actively make sense of the material to apply their learning to new situations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 234 pages
Publication date: 12 November 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Over the past quarter-century, scholars have achieved remarkable strides in identifying effective learning strategies, specifically the activities learners engage in during the learning process with the goal of enhancing their understanding. In their book titled Learning as a Generative Activity: Eight Learning Strategies that Promote Understanding, Logan Fiorella and Richard E. Mayer present eight evidence-based learning strategies that foster comprehension. These strategies include summarizing, mapping, drawing, imagining, self-testing, self-explaining, teaching, and enacting. Each chapter in the book provides a detailed description and illustration of a learning strategy, explores the underlying cognitive theory, evaluates the effectiveness of the strategy through an analysis of the latest research, identifies boundary conditions, and discusses practical implications and future directions.

Moreover, each learning strategy focuses on promoting generative learning, where learners actively engage with the material to make sense of it and apply their learning to new situations. This concise and accessible introduction to learning strategies is of immense value to students, researchers, and practitioners in the field of educational psychology, as well as to general readers interested in developing the crucial twenty-first-century skill of regulating one's own learning.

Weight: 360g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781107687974