University course design and delivery

How to design in-person, hybrid and online courses that maximise student engagement, inclusion and learning. Here, you can find advice on instructional design including lesson planning, creation and organisation of educational materials and effective use of digital technologies; as well as teaching methods and styles to help you achieve specific learning outcomes.

By Laura.Duckett, 18 August, 2025

A scaffolded approach to teaching with GenAI

Students on laptops in a classroom
As GenAI continues to reshape higher education, this four-phase framework by Rena Beatrice Alcalay offers educators ways to guide students to use these tools critically and ethically, fostering agency, bias awareness and deeper engagement in philosophical writing assignments
By Eliza.Compton, 6 August, 2025

Equipping university graduates to think beyond the classroom

Skeleton sled event
Too many students – and some educators – misunderstand what critical thinking entails. Here, Marie Paretti explains why engineering students in particular struggle with open-ended problems, and how educators can design experiences that help them learn to think in context
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4minutes
By Laura.Duckett, 1 August, 2025

Content is king in EAP teaching

Two language students reading a physical document
Content-based instruction is reshaping English for academic purposes teaching by making subject matter central to language learning. Garth Elzerman and Catherine Sari share four strategies for creating deeper, more purposeful engagement in the classroom
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4minutes
By kiera.obrien, 29 July, 2025

Bite-sized learning: when less can be more

Bite-sized canapes are presented on a slate
Could snappy, focused micromodules appeal more to the social media generation than traditional lectures? Perhaps – but only if they’re carefully implemented. Here’s how to do it
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5minutes
University course design and delivery