Teaching and learning

Traditional exams under tightly invigilated conditions are highly stressful for students, but online alternatives bring their own issues, says Michael Priestley

Why do we fetishise high-tech teaching while denigrating reading as a second-rate learning style? asks Andy Farnell

Gill Aitken and Tim Fawns explain how to design online postgraduate courses that operate at the boundaries of the academic and professional worlds

The social elements of university help students succeed academically, so we must start transplanting them online, says Elizabeth Lehfeldt

Academics should drop the holier-than-thou attitude and look at cheating from a student’s perspective if we want to understand and eradicate it, says Hamish Binns

These teaching techniques are designed to pique students’ emotions and lodge key lessons more firmly in their memories

How can academics ensure their teaching strategies meet the needs of diverse students and create inclusive, equitable classrooms

During the pandemic, decades of research and practice were tossed aside in a matter of days, says Ali Carr-Chellman

Maia Forrester and Ian Lee share lessons in boosting student engagement and interaction when teaching online, based on their experience training medical educators

To convince students and stakeholders that blended learning is worth the full tuition fee, we need to tell them exactly how it will work, says Russell Crawford