Special Features for why The Guide to Learning and Study Skills is right for you
This guide is the new edition of Sue Drew and Rosie Bingham's
highly successful The Student Skills
Guide and continues to build on materials the
authors have developed over the last 15 years. Along with highly
practical guidance on traditional learning skills,
The Guide
to Learning and Study Skills supports students on
learning in a blended environment; the increased use of personal
and professional development planning, continuing professional
development and work-based learning.
Available in Paperback
(978-0-566-09233-6), Virtual
Learning CD-ROM (978-1-4094-0495-8), Photocopy
Masters CD-ROM (978-1-4094-0496-5) and now ebook
format (978-1-4094-5006-1), you can have this study guide bible in
the most accessible and appropriate format that works
best for you.
If you would like to know how The Guide to Learning and Study
Skills will personally help you or your students
through learning and study, please see below:
Special Features
Undergraduates
Whether
you’re new to HE or at later stages of your course, you will be
asked to carry out tasks requiring a wide range of skills. Some of
the tasks and skills will be completely new. Some will be familiar,
but not at this level, and what’s expected may differ from what
you’ve done before.
These materials will help you identify what’s
needed and how to successfully tackle the work. In HE it’s not only
what you know that matters, it’s also the way you think, and
organise and present your work.
Postgraduates
The
skills needed at university are required at increasing levels. At
postgraduate level, for example, there are increasing levels of
complexity, critical analysis and standards of presentation. If
you’ve had a gap between your earlier studies and your postgraduate
course, it may particularly important to revisit the skills you’ll
need to use and develop.
At postgraduate level, some of the tasks and
skills will be completely new, some will be familiar, but not at
this level, and what’s expected may differ from what you’ve done
before. These materials will help you identify what’s needed and
how to successfully tackle the work.
Students of all
ages
You may be doing a higher education course
immediately after school or college. You may be a mature student.
The materials within The Guide to Learning and Study Skills have
been carefully designed to allow for both these groups. They
acknowledge the different needs and pressures that students might
have and give examples that allow for them having different needs,
pressures and experiences.
These materials will help you identify what’s
needed and how to successfully tackle the work. In HE it’s not only
what you know that matters, it’s also the way you think and
organise and present your work.
Placement
Students
Many courses include a period of work
experience. This may have credit attached to it and/or it may
contribute to a professional qualification. In these cases you’re
likely to have to record what you’ve done and reflect on and make
use of what you’ve learned. The placement may be your first
experience of professional level work.
The materials will help you with key tasks and
skills needed at work (such as working with other people,
organising your time and carrying out projects) and also with any
work for the university or a professional body. The
research gives situations and examples relevant to both
academic study and also to professional level work, for example
report writing may be needed for both.
Those in work or involved in
continuous professional development
You
may be in your first professional job or in a new professional
role. You are likely to be involved in CPD, and this in turn, is
likely to involve monitoring and recording your development. You
may be studying for professional exams.
You will find our materials very helpful both
in tackling work tasks and developing work skills, and also in
handling the process of CPD. A quick glance at our contents list
will show this. The content is designed to apply to both
academic study and also to professional level work, and give
situations and examples relevant to both.
Professional Bodies and
Trainers
If you’re an education officer
in a Professional Body or if you’re responsible for training in
your organisation, you should find our materials extremely helpful
for your trainees. The materials address both work tasks and work
skills, and also the process of CPD. A quick glance at our contents
list will show this. Our materials are designed to apply to both
academic study and also to professional level work, and give
situations and examples relevant to both.
The authors information comes in a range
of helpful formats. For example, you can buy a license for a
web-based version which you could make available to all your
trainees. You can obtain a licence to make multiple hard copies, or
you could encourage trainees to buy their own book.
Course Leaders, Lecturers and
Tutors (Universities and Colleges)
Helping students
learn about the requirements of higher education and developing the
skills needed can be challenging. We have materials that are
ready-made and appropriate to a wide range of subject areas and
contexts. They start with the tasks that are needed, so are
immediately relevant to students. They are based on current
thinking about how students learn, for example, the importance of
reflection, and on an approach which has been thoroughly evaluated.
Our previous book ‘ The Student Skills Guide’ has been very
successful over the years.
A quick glance at the contents list will
indicate the comprehensive nature of our materials. They are
designed to apply to both academic study and also to professional
level work, and give situations and examples relevant to both.
In short, what makes The
Guide to Learning and Study Skills stand out from the
crowd?
- The authors approach starts with tasks needed
at HE level and through this, helps develop your skills (i.e. the
context is key).
- What have you got to do and why?
- How are you going to do it?
- What skills will you use and develop to do it?
- They focus on the process, helping you
identify possible approaches most suited to you and your context,
thereby developing important reflective skills. We make
suggestions, but get you to think about what’s best for you and
your setting.
- Their materials have exercises with a clear purpose relating to
your task and use examples relevant to a wide range of
situations.
- Skills can be developed to increasing levels and every
topic has both a Crucial Skills and an Enhanced Skills level.
- The approach is based on feedback from an extensive evaluation
with over 2000 university students and their tutors, in all subject
areas and at all levels. It works.
- Their materials have an attractive, clear and ‘clean’ layout,
helping users to easily see the structure of the processes
involved. It is not patronising. The language is understandable and
professional.
- The content and materials are comprehensive, covering common
tasks and the skills needed for them. The coverage, approach and
examples are appropriate for any subject area, including business,
arts, science, technical and visual arts.
The Guide to Learning and Study Skills
For Higher Education and at Work (Virtual Learning Environment Edition)
Sue Drew and Rosie Bingham
Published : July 2010
Binding : CD-ROM Institutional User
Price : £3,500.00 » Website price: £3,150.00
+ VAT
The Guide to Learning and Study Skills
For Higher Education and at Work (Photocopy Masters Edition)
Sue Drew and Rosie Bingham
Published : July 2010
Binding : CD-ROM Institutional User
Price : £1,000.00 » Website price: £900.00
+ VAT
The Guide to Learning and Study Skills
For Higher Education and at Work
Sue Drew and Rosie Bingham
Published : May 2010
Binding : Paperback
Price : £17.99 » Website price: £16.19