ABSTRACT
Students who have poorly developed self-regulated learning skills can find a university difficult to cope with and may drop out unless there is significant support. Tutors have designed courses that try to help them integrate and learn the necessary skills. However, these developments have been outrun by the ‘new technology’. This can deliver lectures to any space and time, supported by audio and visual feeds, webinars and virtual experiences backed by key textual extracts, research papers and documents but it can induce anomie and alienation. It can also conceal poor learning skills and result in low achievement.
Programmes that integrate study skills training with subject learning can help close the excellence gaps between students and thus achieve wide learning gains. The nature of the study skills that can be used across subject studies are exemplified.
