Why learning (and teaching) needs to be hard by Professor Alex Steel, Scientia Education Academy Fellow

All achievement involves effort. Learning and teaching is no exception. There are no short-cuts, no easy fixes.

But not all effort leads to learning outcomes, and a lot of learning and teaching effort may well be wasted. Innovations in pedagogy and technology can reduce the amount of wasted effort. On the other hand, ‘trendy’ innovations in teaching and learning that appear to reduce effort may in fact make learning more difficult by falsely making it appear easy.

In this talk we’ll consider some of the dangers of the short-cuts we may be offering students and teachers, and the dangers of not recognising the degree of effort both need to be great learners and great educators. We’ll balance that with the life-long benefits that flow from hard work in education, and ways we can encourage positive engagement with harder learning and teaching.

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Author:	Remi Hatsumi (via theBox)
Created:	05/03/2018
Updated:	10/12/2019
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