--- abstract: Learning by doing is often talked about but rarely put into practice. It's easier for schools and businesses to fall back on the "drill them and test them" approch to education. This report discusses why learing by doing is the best educational approach because it capitalizes on people's natural learning mechanisms. Learning by doing builds a case base of functional skills and knowledge that are relevant to the learner. altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Schank given: Roger C honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1995 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-04-23 department: Institute for Learning Sciences dir: disk0/00/00/06/37 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 637 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/637/1/LearnbyDoing_Schank.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: Northwestern University isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: ~ lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:08 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ILS Technical Report No. 60 rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:32:23 subjects: - cog-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: What We Learn When We Learn by Doing type: techreport userid: 136 volume: ~