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Resources and advice for academics and students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and maths

By Miranda Prynne, 2 February, 2022

Core data science skills: filling the gaps with community developed workshops

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Advice on looking to the wider research community for resources and training to upskill your research team

The scientific research apprenticeship model lacks training in core data science skills. Community-developed workshops delivered by academic peers can help to fill this gap, Alison Meynert and Edward Wallace explain

By dene.mullen, 26 November, 2021

The government needs to square its rhetoric on creative courses

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Creative courses are an easy target and have long been undervalued despite their importance to economies

Undervaluing the creative sector is nothing new, but the government also says it’s part of a ‘rich mix’ needed to deliver its ambitions. So which one is it, asks Paul Thompson

By miranda.prynne, 11 October, 2021

Collaborative learning cases: a fresh approach to applied learning

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Insight on a new approach to training students in applied learning from the medical school team at NUS

A group of medical educators introduce a new teaching model being used to improve students’ ability to apply learning in clinical or real-world settings through collaborative work on specific cases

By miranda.prynne, 18 August, 2021

Taking challenging courses requiring step-by-step instruction online

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Advice for taking a course like maths requiring detailed step by step instruction online

Pam Benz offers tips for translating challenging courses, which necessitate students seeing problems worked out step by step, to online instruction modes

By miranda.prynne, 23 July, 2021

Striving for imperfection: introducing randomness into virtual experiments

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Why and how to introduce random error into virtual experiments

Rachel Martins explains how she introduced random error into her lab simulations when teaching online physics, to better replicate real-world experiments for her students

By dene.mullen, 18 May, 2021

Moving student competitions online has made them better than ever

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A virtual student competition. These events' move online has resulted in a much greater international spread of participants and collaboration.

Virtual competitions have flourished and resulted in greater international collaboration, says Gayle DeBruyn

By dene.mullen, 26 April, 2021

Only a digital drive will allow us to capture the boom in STEM interest

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Huge uptake of science subjects is expected in the wake of the pandemic, and we must utilise online learning to serve the demand.

We certainly don’t want to turn away thousands of enthusiastic STEM students due to a lack of capacity, says Steve Davies

By miranda.prynne, 16 March, 2021

Five simple ways to recreate the practical sides of teaching online

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Five steps to moving practical learning online

It can be a challenge to shift physical elements of teaching online. Eoin Coakley shares five approaches to recreating the experience of in-person learning for remote students

By miranda.prynne, 16 February, 2021

How a flipped classroom model improves learning in online STEM courses

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Lessons from research into the flipped classroom model online

STEM courses can be challenging to master online, but research by Atef Abuhmaid and Tao Tang shows a flipped classroom model improves outcomes. Here they outline the key lessons from their study

By miranda.prynne, 20 January, 2021

Innovative approaches to moving practical learning online

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Approaches to moving practical courses to more remote learning

A major challenge of the move to remote learning has been how to teach practical subjects. Here, Lesley Saunders and Lucy Kirkham discuss how they adopted a combination of online, blended and socially distanced teaching for a large nursing course

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