ABSTRACT
Learning is learning about something. It has to have some substance, some content. Another way of putting this is to say that it involves the processing of information, so long as we use ‘information’ to cover anything that one might learn or learn about: concepts, values, skills, approaches, strategies, as well as facts or data. Such inputs may come directly from the teacher, through presentation and demonstration, or indirectly through materials such as books, videos, handouts and software. It may come from structured experiences such as practical experiments, workshops and performances, field trips or placements. And we should not forget that it may also come from the students, as they make their own experience available to themselves and others as material for their learning (see Appendix 2). The question is: are there sufficient inputs, from all these different sources, for the students to work on?
