Practical learning

Student internships are an effective way to facilitate student-staff collaboration but, to work well, they require teamwork, the right support and structure, and a focus on tangible outputs

How to prepare a design thinking workshop, from introducing the concept to students through to ideation and eventually pitching their idea

Enquiry-based learning bridges the gap between theory and practice, enabling students to learn by doing. Nicky Goodall shares five tips for successfully bringing it into your teaching

A focus on practical competences comes with the risk that theoretical knowledge will be sidelined during the clinical years. However, two-way vertical integration of medical training can provide a more balanced strategy for learning

How educators can use a flipped classroom approach to aid the teaching of practical skills to a wide range of students

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