Psychology of Learning

Catalog description

Psychology of Learning focuses on applying research on learning, emotion, and motivation to positively impact influence human behavior. The course presents a study of key research and theories in the areas related to learning, with a focus on applications to promote acquisition, retention, and transfer of knowledge. Learners will explore evidence-based strategies to promote learning and analyze how individual and group characteristics can impact affect learning. This course will improve learners ’ understanding of the emotional, social, and environmental factors which that shape human learning and humans' capacity for development. "Introduction to Psychology" is the prerequisite for this course.