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Explicitly linking prior knowledge and experience is key in engaging students in deep learning and transitions them away from passivity in learning

Lucas Lixinski offers tips on how to engage positively with the social media platform, from ‘honour thy hashtags’ to ‘thou shalt live-tweet at events’

Five strategies for university teachers to encourage students to use challenge, struggle and safe failure for effective long-term learning

Graphic representations or frameworks can be powerful tools to explain research processes and outcomes. David Waller explains how researchers can develop effective visual models to chart their work

Through deconstructing the thought processes that occur during learning, students understand how they learn and therefore learn more effectively

Educators can engineer, harness and guide social dynamics towards a positive learning experience rather than leaving students’ interaction to chance

Sometimes not completing a PhD is the rational choice, and having open conversations around it helps stop people feeling isolated and uncertain, says Katherine Firth

If educators understand the factors that interplay with emotional states to affect learning, they can work with this to enhance the learning experience. Here are six strategies to manage the role of emotions in learning

Carl Sherwood explains how imaginative, contextualised writing tasks can make mathematical concepts less abstract and more engaging for diverse student groups

Teaching and research are the pillars of academia, yet these two roles often end up in opposition to one another, says Tara East