ABSTRACT
All students have some responsibility for managing their own learning and are traditionally responsible for the work they put into completion of assignments and revision for exams. This chapter is concerned with helping students who have responsibility for the formulation, management and delivery of the overall strategy of their educational development, and is only incidentally concerned with helping students get on with teacher-determined tasks or working through course materials on predetermined courses, important though these issues are for teachers trying to cope with greater numbers and restricted time. The focus of this chapter is on situations in which students have direct responsibility for aspects of their education which are either not often directly addressed within an institutional setting (such as student motivation and personal development), or for aspects which are the traditional preserve of teachers and accrediting bodies (such as the direction, content, pace, location and assessment of the student’s studies).
