Explorations in Learning in HE

This document offers a summary review of four approaches to understanding learning in higher education:

• a cognitive approach which is relevant to understanding issues of memory and learning, especially from lectures
• a developmental approach which gives insight into how students change their understanding of the nature of knowledge and learning over the duration of a degree
• a relational approach which illuminates the interaction between how students approach their learning and their learning outcomes
• an academic literacies approach which shows how learning tasks, for example essay writing, are governed by implicit conventions which are not always apparent or familiar to all students.

Explorations in Learning in HE(Pdf file)