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  • ‘School is boring’: what it means when your child says they’re bored in class, and how you can help

    Published on: 1 October 2024
    Uncover the reasons behind your child's school boredom and learn effective strategies to reignite their enthusiasm for learning.
  • ‘What Good Looks Like’: Building a Shared Understanding of Quality Training and Learning in the Mining Industry

    Published on: 16 August 2024
    We capture the voices of frontline workers in the mining industry to explore the factors that enable and hinder effective workplace learning, highlighting the need for a shared understanding of what quality learning and training looks like in this high-risk sector.
  • Research to practice – helping educators set students up for success

    Published on: 3 June 2024
    Discover how the UQ Learning Lab bridges the gap between research and practice, empowering educators to equip students for lifelong learning and success.
  • A group of children and teacher at desk excited, smiling, raising their hands, and clapping.

    Gamification in classroom-based, universal social and emotional learning interventions

    Published on: 4 April 2023
    Explore gamification to embed and deliver social and emotional learning interventions in the classroom.
  • Picture of Glenys Oberg under a bougainvillea arch

    ‘Think of the teachers!’: Compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress

    Published on: 14 March 2023
    Researchers from The University of Queensland’s Learning Lab investigated the impact on teachers of working with students who experienced trauma.
  • Teacher and primary school students discussing over laptop in classroom.

    Compassion and social emotional learning in the classroom

    Published on: 7 March 2023
    Discover how using compassion as a motivational framework can create a positive classroom environment that supports the wellbeing of both students and staff.
  • A group of people collaborating on a table with notepads, pens, and gears.

    Mobilising the Science of Learning into real-world practice: Challenges and promising approaches

    Published on: 18 November 2022
    Explore the complexities and benefits of multidisciplinary research in the science of learning, and how it can positively impact education and training.
  • Low angle of a group of students are together, happy and smiling. Faces of young teenagers looking at camera, hugging.

    A tool for understanding adolescent emotions in real-time

    Published on: 5 August 2022
    Innovative avenues to understand emotional experiences in the classroom developed to support educators.
  • Cartoon of a person balancing on a seesaw juggling different emotions.

    Make social-emotional learning part of teaching: it’s easier than you think

    Published on: 8 July 2022
    Make social-emotional learning part of teaching centres on social-emotional learning and provides guidance on how to incorporate social-emotional learning into everyday educational practice.
  • A person sleeping on a desk and bored looking student in tiered lecture theatre.

    Say goodbye to classroom boredom

    Published on: 5 July 2022
    Say goodbye to classroom boredom unpacks boredom and its impacts on learning as well as providing practical tips to decrease boredom in the classroom and increase student engagement.
  • A roller coaster with blue sky and clouds.

    Learning can be an emotional roller coaster: how can we help our students (and ourselves) enjoy the ride?

    Published on: 5 July 2022
    Learning can be an emotional roller coaster explores emotional dynamics at play in the classroom, what influences emotions, and how educators and educational designers can work with emotions to facilitate learning.
  • A hand placing a block on top of a stack of wooden blocks. Each block has a icon image related to learning.

    Deep and meaningful learning: taking learning to the next level

    Published on: 5 April 2022
    Deep and meaningful learning unpacks building learning on prior knowledge, going beyond surface understanding, and laying the foundations for transferring and using knowledge in novel contexts.
  • A sailboat in the ocean with dark clouds heavy with rain.

    Learning challenge and difficulty: calm seas do not make skilful sailors

    Published on: 31 March 2022
    Learning challenge and difficulty centres on the role of learning impasses and error making in learning and how to resolve these to promote strong and healthy connections in learning.
  • A key with teeth shaped like books on a wooden table.

    Learning to learn and higher order thinking: it’s not just what to learn but how to learn

    Published on: 30 March 2022
    Learning to learn and higher order thinking focuses on the awareness of thinking processes and learning strategies, when and how to use them, when and how to evaluate their effectiveness, and developing these capacities in learners.
  • A group of people skydiving.

    Interactive learning: more than teamwork makes the dream work

    Published on: 29 March 2022
    Interactive learning delves into the nature of social interactions and social dynamics in learning, the processes behind them, and the value of a sense of belonging in learning.
  • A collage of icons in head shape with various images in each head.

    Emotions and learning: what role do emotions play in how and why students learn?

    Published on: 18 March 2022
    Emotions and learning explores the powerful role that emotions and group emotional states play in the learning process and how they can be harnessed to enhance the learning experience.
  • Engineering student sitting at desk in lab and writing on a piece of paper.

    Contextual learning: linking learning to the real world

    Published on: 4 March 2022
    Contextual learning brings the context to the learner and delves into how this makes the learning experience more engaging, motivating, and meaningful to students.
  • A cartoon images person climbing a ladder to water a tree growing in brain

    Learning as becoming: what do students become as a result of their higher education experience?

    Published on: 2 March 2022
    Learning as becoming encompasses how the learning experience transforms learners and how a higher education experience can help learners to integrate knowledge and thinking outside of the learning context.
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