Practical learning

José Carlos Vázquez Parra shares five steps for triggering social entrepreneurship and thus encouraging students to become agents of change, whatever their discipline

Hands-on knowledge discovery can give students the chance to put learning into action from the beginning of their studies, write Gray Kochhar-Lindgren and Julian Tanner

Modern employers require a broad suite of skills from graduates; Jorge Membrillo-Hernández outlines how challenge-based learning can help, and how to get started

Using extended reality can enable students to have experiences that would otherwise be impossible to access. Here’s how to get started

Helen Coulshed and Jeanne Wilson discuss their experience creating an interdisciplinary “service” module to challenge gender inequalities in local schools

Launching an innovative inter-faculty way of working has brought great benefit to students, especially in the post-Covid period, say Gemma Ahearne and Matt Murphy

Tips to improve student retention, engagement and participation drawn from teaching blended and online introductory computer programming courses, which cannot rely on in-person labs

A guide to developing community-engaged learning projects that benefit the student participants and the communities they work within, by Sonia Kumar

Embedding project-based learning and youth participatory action research in degree courses can provide students with the critical-thinking skills that employers require

A guide to help STEM educators understand which aspects of practical laboratory learning can most effectively be delivered online and the benefits of this approach