Learning How to Learn is More Than Learning

This paper addresses the importance of independent learning and how to educate people to a world where innovation is becoming more central and related to digital technologies. The five socio-emotional factors, associated with the metacognitive skills, which directly interfere in the learning processes, are described. In particular, the Learning Analytics is emphasized as the methodology that enables educators to make decisions by taking into account systematic and elaborate analyses of learners’ data and the educational contexts in which learning develops. The set of characteristics referring to the educational demands associated with the so-called “shallow works” are presented, as well as the main characteristics associated to the “deep works”. As a main conclusion, in this panorama in which innovation is strategic to meet the new educational requirements, learning how to learn is demonstrated to become more important than “just” learning.