The aim of this guide is to provide learners teachers and tutors in higher education with an easy to use resource for interpreting and improving their own learning power and the learning power of others.
The Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) has proved to be a powerful tool for generating awareness reflection and personal development planning about learning over the last five years in Higher Education. It has been used effectively across a range of institutions subject areas and levels of study to raise learner self awareness and to promote learner development. Most recently ELLI has provided both useful quantitative data and been a catalyst for much valuable qualitative data in the Dispositions to Stay and Succeed project.
This Guide is for teachers and learners in Higher Education and is to help you understand and improve your capacity to learn using ELLI. It is designed to help you after you have completed the ELLI questionnaire to prepare to review and interpret your ELLI spider-gram. The definitions of the seven dimensions will increase awareness of your own learning capacity and the ideas for improvement will help you plan improvements in relation to current contexts in which you want to learn do well and help others do the same.
