Pick up a standard psychology textbook and you will probably find learning defined as a change in behaviour.  In other words, learning is approached as an outcome - the end product of some process. It can be recognized or seen.

Learning can also be approached as a process. In this way it can be thought of as 'a process by which behaviour changes as a result of experience' (Maples and Webster 1980 quoted in Merriam and Caffarella 1991: 124). Such a focus on process takes us into the realm of learning theories - ideas about how or why change occurs.

See: Saljo on learning; four models of learning

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