Student engagement

Bernardo Pereira Nunes offers tips on how to get started on an escape room experience that will boost students’ teamwork, leadership, communication and problem-solving skills

Kevinia Cheung outlines an institutional approach to developing undergraduates’ ability to ‘learn to learn’

A successful writing workshop depends on respect, which is a two-way street, observes Toby Litt. Refrain from sneering at bad writing and offer praise to offset the critiques

After assigning students to write comedy scripts instead of seminar papers, André Martinuzzi and Angelo Spoerk explain how humour has great potential as a learning method

A laugh or smile can lighten a lecture and make students more willing to speak up in class. Here are tips for using this nuanced, subjective tool in your teaching

Ailish Malone and Fiona Daly offer tips on implementing UDL in the busy and variable environment of students’ practical placements

Ng Lee Keng explains why and how telling stories in class can transform student engagement and make your lessons more interesting

In education, brainstorming has been regarded mostly as a classroom engagement tool, but it can be so much more than that, says Mattia Miani

Rebeca Elizabeth Alvarado Ramírez introduces a methodology that encourages effective communication in digital learning processes

Breaking the support experience into bite-size exchanges does more to increase younger students’ appetite to keep going than the traditional one-to-one mentoring model