In an everyday sense of the word, probably, yes.
In a fundamental sense, as in physics, probably no. Learning, as what might be going on in a human head, is redistribution, or repatterning, of existing information; information cannot be created or destroyed, normally.
There's a problem ere though. Since by repatterning we could take the example of the alphabet at it's simplest 26 units of information fro which billions more unique information patterns can be created.
Take one example of a new information pattern the national anthem. What if this is known by millions could it not be said that the amount of information has been multiplied or is there just one national anthem existing in it's own universe which each mind accesses?
Has the national anthem always existed because it is what could be termed information? Do we discover it in a platonistic kind of way?
You seem to be conflating information with energy which is affected by entropy. Mathematics a form of information is not affected by entropy, after all there is mathematics which has no physical expression in our universe (Tegmark.)
I can see therefore energy being a type of information but not visa versa.
Finally we come to substratism whereby information is merely kind of recorded on the medium of matter energy. Hasn't it been found that there isn't enough substrate in the universe to hold the information?
