Higher education 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 Eliza.Compton, 29 August, 2025

Taking pedagogy to the provost’s office

Steps from teaching to leadership
The skills that make effective teachers – adaptability, empathy, presence and reflection – also shape impactful university leaders. Here, Bill Owen shares leadership lessons he learned in the classroom
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5minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 27 August, 2025

Solving the soft skills crisis using artificial intelligence

Young male student looking thoughtfully at a laptop
Employers seek transferable skills such as communication and cultural awareness, but how can universities translate these aspirations into meaningful, scalable learning experiences for students? AI personas offer possibilities
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4minutes
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, 12 August, 2025

Why slowness is a superpower in creative education

Young Asian woman on a bike
Good ideas often appear in the quiet moments we don’t count as work. David Thompson argues for protecting incubation time and for helping students rediscover the value of disconnection
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3minutes
By miranda.prynne, 8 August, 2025

Make good mental health a university priority

Spotlight guide: Make mental health a university priority
With poor mental health now rife across higher education, what can be done to create a supportive campus environment that strengthens well-being and resilience among university students and staff?
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 Eliza.Compton, 31 July, 2025

Critical thinking in teaching and research

Critical thinking spotlight graphic
Practical strategies and advice for university educators and researchers to develop and teach the skills to analyse, evaluate, understand and communicate knowledge in an information-saturated world
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6minutes
Higher education pedagogy