ABSTRACT
Although our main focus is on how students learn it is equally important to examine how we, as practitioners, learn about learning and what part educational research plays in this process. Research is something we, as university lecturers, are expected to do-but how do we learn from it and use it to improve our teaching practice? There is a large body of research available to the profession but important problems arise in the translation of this research into practice. One problem is commented on by Wankowski (1993): ‘The most wasteful feature of the… research and practise of education is the gap between learning theories, their experimental findings and their application…this gap is widest at the level of HE.’
