Students today need to learn effectively online. This book provides ways to develop successful online learners in all types of context - fully online or blended, or technology-enriched traditional teaching. Each of the 53 ideas provides a practical activity to help foster successful study habits and functional skills. Topics include: self-organisation and self-awareness; contributing and collaborating; personalising the learning environment; maximising time on task; and developing practices for lifelong learning. The author is Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, UK. A former psychology lecturer, Professor Sharpe has worked as an educational developer in higher education for twenty years. She has directed a number of learner experience projects which have received wide recognition across both the further and higher education sectors, in pioneering innovative research methods and techniques for eliciting students' expectations and experiences of using technology in their learning.

Students today need to learn effectively online. This book provides ways to develop successful online learners in all types of context - fully online or blended, or technology-enriched traditional teaching. Each of the 53 ideas provides a practical activity to help foster successful study habits and functional skills. Topics include: self-organisation and self-awareness; contributing and collaborating; personalising the learning environment; maximising time on task; and developing practices for lifelong learning. The author is Head of the Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development, Oxford Brookes University, UK. A former psychology lecturer, Professor Sharpe has worked as an educational developer in higher education for twenty years. She has directed a number of learner experience projects which have received wide recognition across both the further and higher education sectors, in pioneering innovative research methods and techniques for eliciting students' expectations and experiences of using technology in their learning.