1. Section 7: Maintaining and building on your foundations - going deeper and broader
  2. Section 8: Making sense of the learning from the initial enquiry
  3. Section 9: Moving from ideas to action
  4. Section 10: Making recommendations, celebrating success and creating the conditions for change

Section 9: Moving from ideas to action

Once the early ideas or propositions about learning have been agreed the commission should begin to define the practical enquiry projects it will undertake in order to explore them further.

The ideas or propositions should be the framework you use to decide upon the focus of these projects, which are an opportunity to enquire more deeply into certain aspects of learning and test out the commission’s ideas in practice. In doing so you will be deepening the knowledge base about learning your commission has begun to create by grounding your ideas in practice, and hopefully inspiring students and staff about what changes to learning are possible.

In this section of the toolkit you will find information about:

9.1 Scoping possible practical enquiry projects
9.2 Designing practical enquiry projects
9.3 Helping students and staff become good ‘researchers’
9.4 Looking outside the commission to examples of excellent practice