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Guidance on teaching design and delivery

Bring playfulness into teaching for collaboration and creativity

In learning, playfulness is often overlooked. Yet it could be key to embedding the soft, ‘human’ skills students will need for the future. Isabel Taurel shows how

Isabel Taurel

Al Akhawayn University

Tech-free teaching: how to get it right

Carefully designed device-free lessons can help students learn to articulate their thoughts, engage with peers and brainstorm ideas. Learn how

Arpita Ghosh

The University of Exeter

Does student attention have a half-life?

Can a theatrical approach to teaching a dry subject free up brain space? Chris Jones uses cognitive load theory to manage when students’ attention drifts

Chris Jones

Regent’s University London

When the university lesson becomes a ritual

By turning your classes into ‘interaction rituals’, you could re-energise even the most apathetic of students – and yourself – and spark excitement for learning. Allan McCoy explains how

Allan McCoy

University of Nottingham

Lessons in how to improve university assessment and quality assurance

Five tips for using AI in university assessment

Instead of trying to detect students using AI for their work, we need to think differently. Here’s where to start

Tom Oliver

University of Westminster

Six assessment types that support deep, real-world learning

If traditional assessment methods feel limited, Temesgen Kifle shares alternative ways to measure students’ understanding and ability to apply learning to authentic problems

Temesgen Kifle

The University of Queensland

Design learning that works with the brain, not against it

Educating used to be about explaining concepts – now it’s about designing experiences to help the brain develop understanding. Find advice to tweak your teaching here

Mussab Aswad

Nasser Centre for Science and Technology

How to embed outreach into final-year research projects

How to take a proactive approach to ethics approval and use existing university mechanisms to transform outreach into assessed, curriculum-aligned work

Nephtali Marina-Gonzalez

UCL

Insight on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education

AI literacy cannot be bolted on to first-year courses

Future teachers, nurses, engineers, lawyers and business leaders need more than rules and policies about when to use AI. Inexperienced students benefit from courses that help them practise responsible judgement alongside foundational learning

Nicole Brownlie

The University of Southern Queensland

How an AI-integrated anonymous chatroom boosted AI literacy and inclusion

A single course design choice helped make AI literacy intrinsic and opened up a way to level the playing field educationally

Fridolin Ting

The Education University of Hong Kong

Beyond checkbox training: how to build university faculty’s digital fluency

How can institutions align digital training with the realities of academic work, professional identity and institutional culture? Here, five academics suggest design principles for effective skills development

Multiple authors

University of Chester, Kate Lindsay Consulting Ltd, University of Plymouth, University of Greenwich , Buckinghamshire New University

How universities can learn to live with AI

University policy and students’ practical use of AI are running in different directions. Higher education needs a collaborative approach, focused on human capability, write Doug Specht and Gunter Saunders

Doug Specht, Gunter Saunders

University of Westminster

Academic publishing tips to help with everything from pitches to peer review

The pros and cons of peer reviewing

Weighing up whether to take on the role of peer reviewer? Arina Ziganshina draws on her own experience to outline the upsides and downsides

Arina Ziganshina

Dubai Medical University

How to make your academic work visible to AI

If you want the robots and LLMs to find your scholarly publications, you need to make your outputs legible, connected and repeatedly encountered

Darshan Vigneswaran

University of Amsterdam

Supporting female academics in Sub-Saharan Africa to publish and lead

Five lessons from a Ghana-focused project that addressed the gendered conditions of academic work to give women the tools needed to participate fully and progress

Alicia Bowman, Juliet Thondhlana, Liticia Effah-Manu, Felicia Nkrumah-Kuagbedzi

University of Nottingham, Ho Technical University, Association of African Universities

Let it evolve: five lessons from developing our own journal

When you launch a new academic journal, be prepared to learn as it develops and let it evolve over time, writes Natalia Azzi

Natalia Azzi

Technological University of Uruguay (UTEC)

Career advice for academics and higher education professionals

Build a teaching and learning research network from the ground up

Early career educators can find support in teaching and learning scholarship through a community of practice. Here’s how

Paul Chesterton

Teesside University

Research supervision that supports and inspires

Discover the skills that underpin effective PhD supervision and how to develop them for personal and professional advancement

Campus contributors, Eliza Compton

Campus

Look for research opportunities in everyday teaching

Low-effort ways to conduct pedagogical research that can transform teaching work from routine into discovery, inviting us to question longstanding assumptions, experiment with innovative approaches and contribute meaningful insights

Adrian Man-Ho Lam

The University of Hong Kong

How to reclaim your identity after academic job loss

When a university role ends abruptly, through redundancy, restructuring or a contract that isn’t renewed, the loss can feel like grief. Victoria Gibbon shares a structured journaling exercise that helped her rebuild a professional identity

Victoria E. Gibbon

Independent academic

Strategies for advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education

The power of the nudge to move EDI from strategy to practice

Nudges make the inclusive option easier for staff to take. Find five tips to embed them here

Teslim O. Bukoye

University of Bath

Widen access to higher education by improving school attainment

With school attainment a key driver of progression to university, outreach must go beyond traditional interventions to widen access. Matthew Lucas offers five evidence-led ways to design educationally robust programmes

Matthew Lucas

UCL

Why diversity literacy is a research skill

As funders demand more inclusive and internationally collaborative projects, researchers and research managers need the skills to turn good intentions into meaningful practice, says Jakob Feldtfos Christensen

Jakob Feldtfos Christensen

Independent academic

Making space for Black voices in higher education

While higher education has talked a lot about EDI, are Black academics noticing the difference in their day-to-day lives? A conference gave them a space to reflect

Yaz Osho

University of Westminster

What international students need to flourish

How storytelling can turn international students into the most powerful voices in the room

Turning presentations into a visual storytelling task allows international students to demonstrate their learning through elements such as sound, visuals, silence and pacing rather than just language

Natalie Cummins

University of Technology Sydney

How to navigate multilingualism in global online classrooms

Virtual international collaboration can develop intercultural competence and critical thinking skills. Here are strategies that help make these experiences valuable

Francisco Alberto Núñez Tapia

CETYS Universidad

How sustained mentoring can drive international students’ success

True integration for international students doesn’t happen during orientation week. It takes place over months and years, through ongoing mentorship, cultural events and year-round academic-career scaffolding

Jennifer Clevenger

Virginia Tech

What the ‘overseas elective’ can teach us about adapting student exchanges for 2026 and beyond

Short-term exchanges may be an effective way to rejuvenate interest in international experiences among students, writes Lucas Lixinski, drawing lessons from his department’s ‘overseas electives’

Lucas Lixinski

UNSW Sydney

Webinars and podcasts: live conversations providing practical advice for higher education professionals

Campus Talks: How co-creation and interdisciplinarity enrich university outreach

An expert in science engagement explains why a people-centred approach, curiosity and creativity are key to sharing knowledge with schools and the community in innovative and inspiring ways

Lorraine Coghill, Eliza Compton

Durham University

Campus Talks: The strengths that multilingualism brings to universities

An expert on multilingual education in China explains how to capitalise on the cultural and learning benefits of multilingualism for higher education, and shares strategies for supporting language diversity in the classroom

Anwei Feng, Eliza Compton

The University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Campus Talks: How can universities nudge students and staff towards greener choices?

A behaviour change expert explains what is required to shift a whole campus community towards more environmentally sustainable habits

Esther Papies, Miranda Prynne

Radboud University

Campus interview: Alain Pompilus of the University of Florida on how to better understand – and connect with – prospective and current students

How can universities develop sophisticated systems for data sharing and analysis that can guide communications and student services? Alain Pompilus was tasked with putting such a system in place and shares lessons from the experience

Alain-Bernard Pompilus

University of Florida

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