Pedagogy

Learn more about pedagogy and how different theories of teaching and learning work across higher education. Here, academics offer insights into a variety of pedagogies, drawing on their own teaching experience alongside research, to provide practical advice on what instructional methods work best for different university contexts, disciplines and classes.

By Miranda Prynne, 5 April, 2023

Bingo! Try bringing games into your staff training

Bingo balls
To engage professional service staff with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, a team at the University of Exeter took a novel approach, creating SDG Bingo. Here’s how they did it
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 4 April, 2023

Small talk: love it or leave it, but teach it to your TAs

Group of four multi-racial people holding speech balloons
Casual conversation fosters a sense of belonging, but it’s not a universal skill. Sarah Kegley details a short workshop that helps international teaching assistants feel at ease making small talk
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 31 March, 2023

Phenomenon-based learning: what, why and how

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Phenomenon-based learning empowers students to apply disciplinary knowledge to real-world situations. Here, Sue Lee and Kate Cuthbert outline the principles of PhBL and how it can be adopted in higher education
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4minutes
By Miranda Prynne, 21 March, 2023

Peer review in multilingual classes

International students
Peer review can be a powerful pedagogical tool for developing multilingual students’ essay-writing and communication skills if they are given clear guidance on the process, Andrea Feldman explains
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4minutes
Pedagogy