This section focuses on and develops our understanding and knowledge of the ways in which learning can be improved. This includes understanding individual approaches to learning; learner needs and engagement in activities that allow them to learn; learning resources including ICT; the role of feedback and assessment to support learnng; pedagogies for developing learning and learning identities; together with the ways the curriculum can be developed.. Topics include modes of interactive support, for example direct teaching and more informal mentoring. Some of the key challenges in this area are:

This section is really important as we need to be able to put forward proposals as to how to enhance learning in different ways in a variety of workplace contexts. One way forward in some cases is to roll learning up with other issues: e.g. recruitment and retention; continuous improvement; network development so that learning is, at least initially, seen as something occuring naturally as part of other activities. Note this section will be enhanced over the next few years as more (TLRP) projects in this area are completed. The following folders give examples of strategies to enhance learning in particular contexts: