Students’ Experiences of Learning

Abstract

This chapter contains a brief review, up to 1999, of the research on the student experience of learning from the student approach to learning perspective. The results and implications of more recent research on (a) the relationship between students’ approaches to learning and their emotions relating to learning and (b) students’ experience of learning online and in problem-based learning contexts are presented. These developments are related back to the model of teaching and learning underpinning the book and are used to frame a set of principles of teaching practice. Some of the complexity in students approaches to learning in terms of a more complex web of influences on learning are also discussed.