Everything about Passive learning
Learning method
Passive learning is a teaching method where students receive information from the instructor and internalize it. It is a method "where the learner receives no feedback from the instructor". The term is often used together with direct instruction and lecturing, with passive learning being the result or intended outcome of the instruction. This style of learning is teacher-centered and contrasts to active learning, which is student-centered, whereby students take an active or participatory role in the learning process, and to the Socratic method where students and instructors engage in cooperative argumentative dialogue. Passive learning is a traditional method utilized in factory model schools and modern schools, as well as historic and contemporary religious services in churches (sermons), mosques, and synagogues. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Passive learningA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Passive acoustic monitoring of animal populations with transfer learningInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Tales have been toldThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: An Improved One-Trial Passive Avoidance Learning SituationCited 335 times
- Go sideways: Active learningA closely related topic
- Go sideways: LectureA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A method of learning and instruction that involves the one-sided transmission of information from instructor to student, where learners absorb knowledge without active engagement or feedback.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
An Improved One-Trial Passive Avoidance Learning Situation
Is subliminal learning really passive?
Active and passive contributions to spatial learning
Unsupervised Learning for Passive Beamforming
Effects of lysine vasopressin on passive avoidance learning
Passive Learning From Television
Bayesian approaches to associative learning: From passive to active learning
Distractor Ignoring: Strategies, Learning, and Passive Filtering
🆕 Influential since 2022
Passive acoustic monitoring of animal populations with transfer learning
Machine learning guided electrochemical sensor for passive sweat cortisol detection
A Learning-Based Methodology for Microwave Passive Component Design
Passive Sonar Target Tracking Based on Deep Learning
Faulty branch identification in passive optical networks using machine learning
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Tales have been toldCatherine Harkins May · 1997
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🔗 Related topics
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