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, 18 May, 2022

Five ways to apply a creative mindset to education

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Students should be encouraged to create and innovate rather than just accrue knowledge. Alan Morgan shares five approaches to cultivating a creative mindset in class
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3minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 17 May, 2022

Eight tips to boost active listening in university students

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Active mental engagement enhances students’ understanding and their ability to remember the ideas we teach. These simple tools and skills can help to move students from passive to active modes of listening and keep them there
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 5 May, 2022

Enhancing learning from digital, audio and video resources

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Print textbooks have serious competitors from digital texts, podcasts, audiobooks and video. The medium – and how each is used – can affect how much students learn, as Naomi Baron explains
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 29 April, 2022

Block teaching: what it is, how to do it and why

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With its short, intense courses, is block teaching the way to boost student success and engagement? John Weldon gives seven tips for switching to the block model and examples of what it offers university educators
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4minutes
Pedagogy