Cash-strapped universities might be tempted by AI tutors, but they cannot reproduce human creativity or insight, writes Mark Haw, senior lecturer in chemical and process engineering at the University of Strathclyde.

Students aren't always aware of the progress they are making or how their emotions affect their learning throughout the year. These strategies can help make those things visible to them.

This PhD dissertation is an inquiry into the darkness of being a university student. Through a series of evocative vignettes, aesthetic expressions and philosophical speculations, Janus Aaen explore the murky nooks and corners of students’ lives based on an ethnographic fieldwork at Aarhus University. (pdf)

Does your teaching feel trapped in the amber of how it's always been done? One teacher uses action research to try something new and tracks the results.

Researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia are using technology to measure students' engagement in class in an effort to improve performance in science. Under the study, about 500 students wear watches and headsets that measure their brain activity, heart rates and skin temperature during science lessons.

Along with their French lessons, Johanne Boursier’s Grade 10 students will also be learning about sleep this school year.

A teacher at Regina's O'Neill High School has come up with a clever way to get students engaged in learning math.

A school district in Massachusetts is using virtual reality to better support students with disabilities. In one example, video-production students at a middle school are using VR to create a virtual tour of the campus that can give new students an early, safe view of their school.

New special-education teachers need several tools and resources to be successful, assert Joanne Van Boxtel and Heather Taylor Wizikowski, both of California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In this blog post, they share evidence-based practices that include the use of technology.

Universitetsstuderende keder sig tit og oplever ofte, at deres studier ikke giver mening. I sin ph.d.-afhandling har Janus Aaen lavet en etnografisk og filosofisk undersøgelse af, hvordan det er at være studerende på et dansk universitet.

I Spanien är man ensam med 24 till 30 treåringar och då blir man bra på undervisning, som underlättar en annan typ av verksamhet, och det är en sak vi kan lära av, säger Kia Kimhag, lärare vid Högskolan i Gävle.

Elever med autisme har typisk svært ved at etablere sociale relationer, men skak giver dem noget at være fælles om, oplever Lene Bitsch Bierbaum fra Louiseskolen i Haderslev. Speciallæreren deltager i Skoleskak for Alle og har flere elever, som er blomstret op.