Reading during lockdown: Supporting vulnerable learners

Covid-19, education and educational research

Learning to read is perhaps the most important thing we learn to do. There is significant evidence that being a reader impacts on future social, emotional, economic and academic success. A failure...

Entanglements of writing and matter: Towards less human-centred practices

Over the last decade, the humanities and social sciences have become increasingly interested in the nonhuman (animals, plants, non-living objects) as having agentic and performative capacities. By...

Curriculum integration can support the development of powerful knowledge in education

On 20th March 2015, an article published by the Independent (Garner, 2015) claimed that Finnish schools had scrapped school subjects and replaced them with topics. Ever since then Finland has been...

Editorial: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

For higher education, Covid-19 has presented a particular challenge: having had to convert our classrooms to online platforms, higher education practitioners have faced the task of teaching and...

Urgent matters of insight: Upholding gaps in higher education research, teaching and learning for super-complexity

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

To date, Covid-19 has not only highlighted the interconnectedness of societies and individuals, but also that educational endeavours privileging the cultivation of particular human qualities...

Empathy and engagement from a distance: Three learning delivery options in an uncharted terrain

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

My understanding of the uncharted terrain that ensued from January 2020 in China and March 2020 the world over is that human in-person mobility and interaction outside homes has been completely...

Respecting the role of the physical body in teaching and learning

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Covid-19 has shed light on the day-to-day life of teaching and learning. As parents began home-schooling and teachers adapted to innovative ways of connecting with students online, in our...

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

This collection of blogs, guest-edited by Gabriella Buttarazzi, explores how we can adopt responsive and creative approaches to teaching, learning and research in higher education during times of...

Flipping the course curriculum: Digital engagement for active learning

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

Digital engagement has steadily become an important part of an educator’s pedagogic repertoire since universities started offering courses online in the early 2000s. In light of the Covid-19...

Building on Covid-19 experiences for future organisational improvisations

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

This recent period of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly unexpected and required a very rapid response by everyone across university systems. The use of online delivery as...

Values first, goals second

Uncharted terrain: Teaching and learning in higher education for times of uncertainty

I have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...

Only time will tell: Using temporal multimodal analysis to predict learning

By analysing the learning process, one can understand how student behaviours are related to learning outcomes. When assessing the learning process, researchers have shown multimodal learning...