Top tips to improve the teaching of mathematics in universities
Layal Hakim shares advice for improving higher education mathematics teaching, from preparation to delivery styles
February 9, 2022
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Are you optimising the user experience for your students?
Kevin Curtis provides an introduction to simple user experience (UX) techniques that can help when considering how students and staff engage with higher education services and their campus surroundings
February 9, 2022 -
Professors who ‘practise what they preach’ help humanise research management
There is a need in academia for professors to match teaching and research with professional practice – and be fairly compensated for it
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How educators can help manage Covid anxieties on campus
Simple strategies can allow teachers to connect more deeply with students and help prepare them for stressful professional environments
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How to facilitate the small changes in teaching that make a big difference
Through their podcast, Alastair Stark and Sebastian Kaempf champion the ‘sandwich conversations’ between colleagues that lead to impactful incremental shifts in teaching practice
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How to enhance students’ participation in teamwork that is not assessed
Rebecca Wang outlines a learning structure that supports students who are new to team-based research projects
February 8, 2022 -
Five tips for using design thinking to transform your academic practice
Jenny Moffett explains how embracing design thinking may offer ways to combat academic perfectionism and develop vital skills for navigating uncertain paths
February 8, 2022 -
Start with why, part two: building a clear learning journey
In the second part of his guide to curriculum development, Graeme Knowles explains how learning outcomes can be developed and then used to map the overall learning journey
February 7, 2022 -
The metaverse will change everything – including academic research
We must push XR research boundaries if we’re to understand and shape our future reality – here’s how, says Neil McDonnell
February 7, 2022 -
Bringing learning to life: nine tips for teaching in outdoor places and spaces
David A. G. Clarke reflects on his experience of teaching in outdoor spaces and provides valuable tips on how to take higher education outside the classroom
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Conversations around stress must move beyond ‘I’m fine, how are you?’
Sara Metz offers practical advice on adopting the ‘stress continuum’ – a shared language and system to help staff and students reflect upon and discuss their well-being
February 4, 2022 -
Managing individual research productivity in academic organisations: seven key insights
Advice on steps institutions can take to boost the productivity and impact of researchers, based on a study by Olga Ryazanova and Jolanta Jaskiene
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We need to move beyond the synchronous versus asynchronous debate
Academics are agonising over the wrong elements of online education. They should be thinking about active versus passive learning, says Simon Chesterman
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Core data science skills: filling the gaps with community developed workshops
The scientific research apprenticeship model lacks training in core data science skills. Community-developed workshops delivered by academic peers can help to fill this gap, Alison Meynert and Edward Wallace explain
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Focused freewriting is the cure for students’ writer’s block
Freewriting for five minutes warms up the brain and begins to fill students’ blank screens with material that gets their writing going. Anne Carlisle talks through the process
February 2, 2022