Teaching and learning

A five-minute virtual reality exercise has the power to dramatically shift students’ understanding of and empathy for dementia patients’ experience

Don’t generalise about digital learning being problematic for students with ADHD. Rather, find the digital tools that develop their unique talents, argues Dustin Hosseini

Teaching students innovative thinking through the use of business case studies and ‘learning by doing’, explained by William Cheung and Edward Yiu

How to design and implement a virtual rally, which can help increase students’ attention, performance and ability to learn through collaboration

Designing, conducting and presenting a research project based on classroom experience can give students an early opportunity for critical reflection on their learning

Ice-breaking activities borrowed from the performing arts that can help students form bonds and build belonging from the start of a course

Three tips identified by students that will help you develop an honest, strong relationship with students and become a more authentic teacher

Why a sense of belonging is crucial to learning and how we can rebuild it within universities, following the disruption of the pandemic, in ways that also boost graduate skills

Rather than flagging essays by students with specific learning difficulties for “sensitive” marking, why are universities not rethinking the way they assess to make it more equitable for all students?

G. K. Suraishkumar looks at ways to assess students’ learning more effectively through formative assessments and argues for basing grades entirely on this method