Learning Principles

The Learning Principles toolkit takes academic research in areas such as motivation, barriers to learning and learning styles and specialist topics including homelessness, numeracy, ethnicity and work-based learning.

The toolkit provides accessible and practical information and tips, underpinned by best practice and first principles to help people to learn and stay learning.

• Building Self-Confidence
• Designing a Learning Space
• Designing a Learning Space for SMEs
• ePortfolios
• Improving Memory
• Information Literacy - information skills for everyone
• Learning Centres in the Learning Region
• Learning in Later Life
• Learning Styes (Practice)
• Learning Styles (Theory)
• Lifelong Learning and Developments in the Brain Sciences
• Managing Transitions
• Motivating Learners
• Numeracy Issues
• Providing Further Education in the Community
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) and the Scottish and Credit Qualification Framework (SCQF)
• Return to Learning
• Supporting Black and Minority Ethnic Learners
• Supporting Learners Affected by Homelessness
• Supporting Learners who are Blind or Partially Sighted
• Supporting Learners who have Experience of Mental Health Problems
• Supporting Learners with Learning Difficulties  
• Teaching Adults
• Trade Union Members and their Learning Needs
• Using e-Learning Materials to support achievement of Knowledge and Understanding requirements of S/NVQs
• Work-based Learning
• Working with Deaf Learners