Making Learning Happen
A Guide for Post-Compulsory Education
- Phil Race - Independent Consultant
Learning & Cognition
In the age of digital communication, online learning and MOOCS, Higher Education Institutions need to be able to offer even more to their students.
Centred around Phil Race's well-known 'ripples on a pond' model, this accessible discussion of post-compulsory education identifies the fundamental factors underpinning successful learning and clearly shows you how to help students learn effectively.
Updates to this third edition include:
- practical ‘tips for students’ to help you engage your group
- discussion of four literacies students need
- comparative discussion of different forms of assessment
- increased coverage of peer observation and evidence-based practice
- advice on making lectures unmissable
- online resources including printable checklists for use in class
- link to a video interview with the author
This book is a valuable tool for lecturers and tutors in universities and colleges, post-16 teachers in secondary education, and educational managers. It also provides a useful resource for postgraduate students on higher and further education courses and staff development courses.
Phil Race gives keynotes on assessment, feedback, learning and teaching, and runs interactive training workshops for staff and students in universities, colleges and other organizations throughout the UK and abroad.
A useful 'overall' textbook that will support learners to focus upon the learning that will take place in the classroom / learning environment. This is especially useful as it is aimed at the post compulsory sector - with its very dynamic learners!
This guide is useful to both established and new lecturers especially at a time when the sector is moving from teaching students to supporting their learning. There are a number of helpful checklists requiring reflection on how/why we lecture and assess they way we do, as well as advice on how to ensure learning happens in a variety of ways.
Highly recommended reading for anyone in this field
Easy to read and will help learners become and develop into reflective teachers.
Useful and grounded text. Variety of perspectives and strategies considered to help our learners develop into thinking teachers.
This is an extremely well written and useful book. Professor Race’s depth of expertise and research in the field is evident on every page, but he wears his knowledge lightly and the text is easy to digest. There a many helpful hints for day-to-day practice and every recommendation or suggestion to improve learning is based upon solid research. Making Learning Happen is now required reading amongst my team of Deans and Heads so that Phil Race’s excellent advice and pointers can be cascaded down through Faculty training and development events.
This book makes cogent and readable arguments for re-thinking postcompulsory education, but I prefer Noel Entwistle's book "Teaching for Understanding at University".
Making Learning Happen is critical reading for both the training practitioner and the experienced tutor. Race continues to break down barriers to understanding through clear dialogue and easy to digest theoretical underpinning. This book is a must for anyone studying on a PGCE/CertEd, Diploma through to the Award in education and training.
An informative read for all. Useful strategy and theory effectively portrayed.
This is an interesting evidence based book that I would like to add to my reading list to supplement the core texts.
Sample Materials & Chapters
Table 3.1-Putting learning outcomes to work
Fig 3.2-Start by thinking about evidence of achievement
Fig 4.5-Towards assessment as learning the ‘interrogation’ grid
Fig 5.5-Feedback Form On submitting your first essay on a course
Fig 5.6-Feedback Form Reflecting on tutor feedback on your essay
Fig 6.5-Student self-assessment checklist to use after a lecture
Fig 8.3-Example of an observation pro forma
Fig 8.4-Example of a simpler observation pro forma
Fig 8.5-Example of a formal record of an observation
Fig 8.6-Example of a self-reflective checklist
1.Tips for students - how to do uni (Chapter 1)
2. Tips for you, and your students - helping learners to make learning happen (C
3. Tips for students - using learning outcomes (Chapter 3)
4. Tips for students - assessments (Chapter 4)
5. Tips for students - making the most of your feedback (Chapter 5)
6. Tips for students - getting the most from lectures (Chapter 6)
7. Tips for students - getting the most from small-group learning (Chapter 7)
8. Tips for you, and your students - peer observation (Chapter 8)
