John Cowan has been an active innovator for the past thirty years, having led in such developments as resource-based learning, Education for Capability, self-assessed learning, and action-research activities for students as well as teachers. He has been much in demand to share his experience in workshops which have linked staff and curriculum development in what has always been the essentially practical approach of someone who wants to help his colleagues to enhance their teaching and their students' learning. A former Professor of Engineering Education at Heriot-Watt University, and of Le...