Practical learning

Reflection and advice for hands-on university teaching practices and experiential learning. These resources offer expert tips to support quality teaching through lab work, fieldwork and work placements as well as community-based learning, project-based learning and simulations.

By Laura.Duckett , 28 October, 2026

Are you missing a vital ingredient in VR teaching and learning?

VR learning should go beyond aesthetics. Each object, space or interaction must have a pedagogical function, says Nancy Zavala. Learn how a design thinking approach can help students put theory into practice

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett , 9 October, 2026

Build students’ intercultural competence in online classrooms

The ‘global shared learning classroom’ teaches students how to view traits such as leadership through different cultural lenses, better preparing them to thrive in an interconnected world. Learn how

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett , 6 October, 2026

What can traditional degrees learn from apprenticeships?

A group of smiling students standing outside on university campus grounds

Three stages for embedding apprenticeship-informed practice, with strategies collected from degree apprenticeship educators across the UK

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3minutes

By miranda.prynne , 23 September, 2026

Universities create structured opportunities for students – but what happens in the spaces between?

Students developing a model aeroplane at an event

Closer attention should be paid to what happens once students walk out of an event or workshop or complete a project – this is where the real impacts can be seen and further developed, writes Tosin Adebisi

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4minutes

By Eliza.Compton , 15 September, 2026

Memorable teaching doesn’t just transfer knowledge – it transforms perspective

Architecture students inspecting plans on a board

Educators may often ask themselves how to make teaching more engaging. A better question is how to create learning experiences that fundamentally change the way students think

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett , 9 September, 2026

Paid research internships can level the playing field for bioscience students

Two lab workers discussing something on a screen

Research experience is invaluable – but only if students can afford to take part. Learn about a scheme that supports under-represented students

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4minutes

By Laura.Duckett , 8 September, 2026

Three ways to foster an interdisciplinary mindset in students

A group of students discussing an interdisciplinary project at a table

Interdisciplinarity can feel vague and abstract. Read guidance on helping students understand how concepts are defined and how approaches to problems differ across disciplines

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4minutes

By Eliza.Compton , 7 September, 2026

Teaching AI use in music for intercultural perspectives

One way to navigate the tension between fear of AI’s impact on creativity and using it to enhance these processes is to take a human-centred approach to its use. Hyesoo Yoo explains

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4minutes

By kiera.obrien , 4 September, 2026