Making Learning Happen: A Guide for Post-Compulsory Education

Making Learning Happen provides an accessible and practical discussion of teaching and learning for the post-compulsorysector of higher and further education. Much of the existing educational literature on 'learning' is written in language which makes it inaccessible to the people most directly involved in learning: learners and their teachers. This book avoids the unnecessary jargon and elitist language which has too often hitherto hindered teachers and learners alike in thinking about how best to make learning happen.

This book will help staff in higher and further education increase the 'learning payoff' which their students derive from a wide range of educational contexts, at all levels in post-compulsory education.

The book is centred around Phil Race's well-known 'ripples on a pond' model of learning, which has identified five fundamental factors underpinning successful learning:

'wanting' to learn

'needing' to learn

'learning by doing'

'feedback'

'digesting - making sense of what has been learned'.

This text will allow teachers and students to address these factors head-on in a wide range of contexts, including large-group teaching, small-group work, online learning, and in their use of formative feedback to help their students.

Included in the book is a self-analysis questionnaire to enable learners to reflect on how these factors contribute to their own approaches to learning.

Making Learning Happen is a valuable resource for Postgraduate students on PGD higher and further education courses, staff development courses in all Bristish universities, and is a helpful tool for lecturers and tutors in higher and further education, post-16 teachers in secondary education, educational managers, and students themselves. (From the Publisher)