Students+or+learners?+difference?

=Are they students or learners?=

[|Excellent blog by David Warlick with his chart seen below]

//So let me see if I can distinguish between these notions of// students //and// learners//.//
 * || **Students** || **Learners** ||
 * **Relationship with educators** || Students are employees, required to obediently follow instructions. || Learners are citizens with a vested interest in the learning society. ||
 * **Relationship with other “Students”** || Students are competitors || Learners are collaborators ||
 * **Motivation** || Obligation: Students are culturally obliged to work for the teacher & for compensation //(below)// || Responsibility: Learners are motivated by an understood and realized “value” in their work, especially when it is valuable to others. ||
 * **Compensation** || Institution defined grades and gateways to college (another institution) and a good job (another institution) || A sense of ongoing accomplishment that is not delivered but earned, and not symbolic but tangible and valuable — an investment. ||
 * **Mode of Operation** || Compliant, group-disciplined, objective-oriented, and trainable || Persevering, self-disciplined, group- and goal-oriented, resourceful, and **learning in order to achieve** rather than **achieving learning**. ||
 * **Why?** || Compelled || Curious ||
 * **Equipped** || ..with packaged knowledge and tools for recording packaged knowledge — prescribed and paced learning || ..with tools for exploring a networked variety of content, experimenting with that content, and discovering, concluding, and constructing knowledge — invented learning ||
 * **Assessment** || Measuring what the student has learned. || Measuring what the learner can do with what has been learned. ||