About these sites

This is a considerably up-dated mirror of  the learning and teaching sites hosted at http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/ and http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/teaching/. As soon as I can get access to it again to delete it, that url will be phased out and this one will take over, but for the moment they are being run in tandem.

The sites are intended primarily for practising and training teachers, who are or will be teaching students at college, university or after. They provide accessible information on a range of teaching and learning issues, but I make no claim for their reliability, accuracy or (especially!) objectivity:

• the Learning site provides a "quick and dirty" overview of part of the field. It should be complemented by reading the original sources, which is why it is fairly extensively referenced. 
• the knowledge base of the Teaching site is rather different. It presents ideas which need to be tested principally by your own experience, so they are not—on the whole—academically referenced.

Like any discerning user of the net, you will wish to know my credentials.

• I have no particular axe to grind: my orientation to the whole field is that of a pragmatic practitioner, sceptical about any panaceas, who nevertheless believes that every practical choice embodies a value-position which is worthy of discussion. 
• I hope you find what follows, useful.

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