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In the first article of a series, Haider Ali looks at one of the methods used to address the challenges of making management education more relevant to practising managers on a FutureLearn course.

Tutors are increasingly being asked to teach together with a colleague – often called ‘co-tutoring'. But what are tutors’ experiences of co-tutoring and can it play a role in developing their teaching practice?

In this latest blog post, Sarah Henderson and Ben Melluish look at how level 1 students engage with interactive resources when undertaking their first business or law module. 

It can often feel like academics and practitioners are from different universes, let alone planets. In this blog Richard Harding discusses how we might better bridge the divide between them to create unions made in, rather than separated by, the heavens.

In the face of some of the world’s global problems, it can be easy to feel disempowered and disengaged. In this post, Jessica Giles explores interdisciplinary methodology as a platform for us to address global issues.

In this latest post, Carol Edwards, Liz Hardie and Lorraine Gregory, discuss setting up a pilot mentoring programme to help students form supportive communities in their studies. 

In this post Haider Ali looks at how instructors delivering learning in residential schools can provide an experience involving high levels of staff/student contact whilst remaining satisfying and enjoyable for students.

In this post, Senior Lecturer Michael Ngoasong explores how emergency online learning environments can be created in response to COVID-19.

If you've ever fancied yourself as a blog writer then these simple, top tips from Dr Jacqueline Baxter will enable you to turn your idea into an eye-catching blog in no time.

Open University Associate Lecturer Lin Smith takes a look into key academic skills for study and what skills online students have acquired.