Researching Student Learning - Hardcover

RICHARDSON

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0335205151 ISBN 13: 9780335205158

Publisher: Open University Press, 2000

Synopsis

* How can one study the process of student learning in higher education?
* How does distance education differ from campus-based education?
* Do students taking courses by distance education approach their studies in a different way from students in campus-based institutions?

The last twenty five years have seen major developments in our understanding of how students set about the task of learning. This has led to a substantial body of ideas, theories and evidence that are concerned principally with studying in conventional, campus-based higher education. However, there is a largely separate literature concerned with approaches to study in distance education. Both bodies of literature have involved qualitative as well as quantitative research methods, and both have emerged from many different countries around the world. This book provides a critical evaluation of the literature and draws out its implications for both distance and conventional education. In short, the book provides the first detailed survey of approaches to studying in distance education, and the first integrated account of approaches to studying in both campus-based and distance education.

John Richardson argues that there are no qualitative or quantitative differences between how students in campus-based and distance education approach their studies that cannot be attributed to differences in background variables such as age and previous educational experience, and thus that the lessons learned can be shared between the two separate bodies of literature.

This book is an important resource for all those concerned with learning and teaching in universities and colleges, whether in campus-based or distance learning institutions.

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About the Author

John T.E. Richardson is a Professor of Psychology at Brunel University and has published widely in the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuropsychology, and research on learning in higher education. He is also a Visiting Research Professor in the Institute of Educational Technology at the Open University, where he has been working for several years on approaches to studying in distance education.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0335205151
• ISBN 13: 9780335205158
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240