ABSTRACT

The Dearing Committee heard from ‘prominent researchers specializing in learning in higher education’ that learning at that level ‘can be defined as the development of understanding and the ability to apply knowledge in a range of situations… Learning also involves acquiring skills, such as analysis and communication, but these in isolation do not constitute learning’ (Dearing Report, 1997). This is all that the Report says about learning as a process (as distinct from learning as something that one possesses).