Exploring learning

We probably all have personal beliefs about how learning happens.  Take a few more moments to think about your own learning

• Do you consider yourself to be a successful learner of your subject? Why (not?)

• Are there any particular strategies or techniques that work(ed) well for you as a learner?

• Did you learn your subject in the best way? If you could turn back the clock, what would you change about the way you learned? Why?

• Which of your teachers were helpful or unhelpful? What did they do to assist or prevent your learning?

• How were you assessed? Did this affect the way you (or your teachers) approached the learning process?

• Do you encourage your students to use any of the strategies or techniques that helped you, or consciously avoid anything that you found unhelpful?

To some extent, you are in a university because you have been a successful learner.  But did you learn most from teachers, from your research, from your peers or...?

Did you learn from books, from practical experiences, from talking to others or...?  Did you read first and then go and 'do' or did you experience something in a lab or the field and then read further about it? 

We probably all learn from a mixture of sources and it will be important to remember this when thinking about students' learning