Wow, so many ‘makes’ in this post and its comments!

“Learning, agenda, creativity, curiosity, doing, control, …” Why does any one or more ‘make’ (or ‘prevent / eliminate’) one or more others??? And, by the way, why are ‘taking risks’ and ‘failure’ included in the post and comments?

Learning becomes Effective Learning” because, first and foremost, it is learner-controlled! As I often reminded students and advisees, all educators have expectations for what their students must or should learn. Two things: First, the educator might or might not be forthright in making those expectations clear; the learners must determine that in order to ‘do well’ in the course. Second, the educator might or might not expect Effective Learning from their students — learning that enables use / application of the learning to meaningful situations; sadly, the learners might have to go beyond what the educator expects to include what ‘Effective Learning’ encompasses.

Only then, will the learning be sound, will the agenda be learner-developed, will the efforts be risky enough to be effective but include occasional failures, will significant and important learning result from the risk taking and the failures, will curiosity be a meaningful contributor, will creativity and doing be critical components!!!

AND MAYBE MOST IMPORTANTLY, the Effective L