Learner A person who is actively engaged in building meaning through acquiring knowledge and skills.
Learner Outcomes The intended result of an education program. (Adapted from North American Association for Environmental Education; Chicago Wilderness and Lake County Forest Preserves; Association
for Supervision and Curriculum Development)
Learning Human learning is the disposition of human beings to engage in continuous dialogue with the human, social, biological and physical environment that lead to changes in knowledge, skills, attitudes, values and behaviors for interacting constructively with change. (Adapted from International Handbook of Lifelong Learning, 2001)
Learning Styles The different ways that humans learn; the three dominant being visual, auditory, and kinaesthetic. (Adapted from LD Pride)
Lifelong Learning Learning throughout the life cycle, from birth to grave and in different learning environments – formal, non-formal and informal. (Adapted from World Bank)
Living History An attempt to accurately replicate the past through the use of a physical environment and the sights, sounds and smells of the period being represented. The two major types of interactive living
history interpretation is first-person and third-person. (Adapted from Association for Living History Farms and Museums)
Logic Mode An organizing tool or picture of how an interpretive or educational organization or program works. A logic model links outcomes (short- and long-term) with program activities and processes and the theoretical assumptions of the program through tiered objectives: outputs, outcomes and impacts.