ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a summary of Stephanie's research into transfer of learning for business students. It explores that general and specific transfer occurred for strongly motivated learners within a vocationally oriented distance education programme. The chapter provides an ample evidence of general transfer of learning for a group of distance learners. Distance education, with its potential to cater for high numbers of students, is one of the options policymakers and education providers consider when addressing the resource implications of the massification' of higher education and when catering for life-long learning. The interviews highlighted the diversity of experience and expectations learners bring to a single course, and the diversity of the contexts in which they are working and applying their learning. There is a growing literature providing sound guidelines for factors which enhance teaching and learning for transfer.
