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Accelerated Learning
An approach to learning based on research into learning styles and how the brain works. Draws particularly on ideas from multiple intelligences and brain-based learning.
Affective Domain
Part of Bloom's taxonomy covering areas such as receptiveness to information, responding and seeing the value of ideas and information.
Algorithm
A step by step procedure that, if followed exactly, will always yield a correct solution to a type of problem.