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Learning bears on, deals with, a reality outside the student. This may be a physical, tangible reality (e.g., the human body), a social reality (the workings of the parliamentary system), a psychological one (the workings of memory), or a verbal-abstract one (the logic of Alice in Wonderland).
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Chang, T.M., Crombag, H.F., van der Drift, K.D.J.M., Moonen, J.M. (1983). The Scope and Limitations of Written Instruction. In: Distance Learning. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7401-2_4
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