LTSN Engineering Case Study: developing the independent learner

This Case Study produced in 2004 was developed as a result of the LTSN Engineering Mexican Hat Working Group. Independent learning refers to activities that are driven by the learner's own enquiry. This case study discusses how formative assessment can play an important role in this development process if it explicitly places a focus on 'what learners do' rather than on 'what teachers do' and thus breaks the perception that learning only takes place during formal timetabled sessions.