On this page we outline some possible approaches to research-based learning. Some of them are student led, whilst others are teacher guided. Possibly the simplest way to get into research-based learning is to begin to look at what you already do in the classroom where students begin to take on some responsibility for what happens in an investigation. This might be the sort of thing you let them do when they are doing coursework for official examinations, or it might be something that you already do in your classroom as part of your existing schemes of work. Don't be surprised if you suddenly find that some or many of the things you do start to look like research-based learning. It is possible that you have been doing this sort of work with students all along.