Deep Learning:
More than just the accumulation of information.
The students must have been in contact with meaningful content from all facets of life.This gives the necessary framework for deep learning to occur.
Deep, as opposed to superficial learning:

Focus is on “what is signified”
Focus is on the “signs” (or on the learning as a signifier of something else)
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Relates previous knowledge to new knowledge
Focus on unrelated parts of the task
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Relates knowledge from different courses
Information for assessment is simply memorised
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Relates theoretical ideas to everyday experience
Facts and concepts are associated unreflectively
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Relates and distinguishes evidence and argument
Principles are not distinguished from examples
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Organises and structures content into coherent whole Task is treated as an external imposition Emphasis is internal, from within the student
Emphasis is external, from demands of assessment

http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/deepsurf.htm
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