What is Vicarious Learning?

• vicarious learning: The changes in an individuals behavior brought about by observing the actions of others and the consequences of those actions.
• Vicarious learning: Learning from observation the consequences of others1 behavior.
• Vicarious learning: A type of learning that occurs when a person observes the reinforcements received by others contingent on their actions.
• Vicarious Learning (VL) is the notion that people can and will learn through being given access to the learning experiences of others. Simple traditional examples are instances such as master classes in music and the process of clinical teachers going through cases with students. In these situations, one person or student is the focus of tutorial attention, but others present will benefit from observing the interaction. Also, as teachers know, many students are too shy to indicate their need for help in class - such students learn a great deal from observing and overhearing the learning experiences of others. But although we know VL is effective in broad terms, our aim in this project is to find out more about how and why VL works.

• Adj.	1.	vicarious - experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement" secondary - being of second rank or importance or value; not direct or immediate; "the stone will be hauled to a secondary crusher"; "a secondary source"; "a secondary issue"; "secondary streams"
  	2.	vicarious - occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation" medical specialty, medicine - the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques abnormal, unnatural - not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food"
  	3.	vicarious - suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement" exchangeable - suitable to be exchanged

• vicarious [vik-air-ee-uss]
  Adjective
  1. felt indirectly by imagining what another person experiences: vicarious satisfaction
  2. undergone or done as the substitute for another: vicarious adventures
  3. delegated: vicarious power [Latin vicarius substituted]
• vi·car·i·ous
  adj.

  1. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another: read about mountain climbing and experienced vicarious thrills.

  2. Endured or done by one person substituting for another: vicarious punishment.

  3.

  a. Acting or serving in place of someone or something else; substituted.

  b. Committed or entrusted to another, as powers or authority; delegated.

  4. Physiology Occurring in or performed by a part of the body not normally associated with a certain function.

Knowledge domain germane

Analogical and Case-Based Reasoning

Implicit Learning

Apprenticeship Learning

Social Modelling and 'Socially Valued Other'

Social Foraging

Articulation of Knowledge: Making it Explicit

Tacit Knowledge

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (nlp)

Vicarious Generations

Observational Learning

Extreme Programming (xp)

Intelligent Agents

'Wisdom Can't be Taught' and 'Not from Experience'