Student-centred teaching is about paying attention to how our students are learning and developing as they experience the formal and informal curriculum.

As teaching staff, we can help our students relate to the content by:

• Activating relevant prior knowledge, skills, and experiences
• Providing visualisations for abstract ideas and processes
• Raising real-world examples to contextualise abstract theories
• Simulating experiences through involving standardised patients or the use of virtual reality software
• Involving industry partners or real clients in applied learning and applied research projects

Formative assessments are also essential to student-centred teaching as they provide feedback to support students’ learning in terms of process and delivery, as well as the quality of artifacts produced.

Assignments, such as projects, direct and support students in exploring and deepening their learning. They allow students to realise what they need to know, and help them learn by doing or through just-in-time learning.

Flipped classrooms

• Flipped Classroom Model: Why, How, and Overview (YouTube video)

Team-based learning

• Team-Based Learning Collaborative

Case-based learning

• IESE Business School of the University of Navarra

Problem-based learning

• Aalborg Centre for Problem-Based Learning in Engineering Science and Sustainability
• Illinois Center for Innovation in Teaching & Learning

Use of simulation for learning

• UNSW (Sydney) Teaching
• Technology Enhanced Learning at SHU