This document discusses learning strategies and defines them as activities, techniques and media planned according to student needs, objectives and courses to make learning more effective. It describes cognitive strategies that directly operate on information, like collecting, analyzing and storing data. Specific cognitive strategies mentioned are attention, memorization, elaboration and understanding. Metacognitive strategies are defined as facilitating knowledge quantity/quality, control, direction and problem solving. Metacognitive strategies discussed are evaluation, control, planning, monitoring and access.