The purpose of the ‘Internationalising Teaching in Higher Education’ open-access portal is to showcase examples of good practice related to the internationalisation of courses in various disciplines such as the humanities, social sciences as well as in medicine. These examples reflect efforts to enhance the learning of international students, mixed groups of international and domestic students, and domestic students via internationalisation at their home institutions. They all use student-centred learning and, more specifically, the method of peer learning.

The examples were collated as part of the international collaborative project ‘Improving Academic Teaching and Internationalisation through Enhanced Competences of University Teachers’ (IMPACT). Some of these are innovations of student learning designed and implemented by teacher contributors of the teaching development course ‘Effective Teaching for Internationalisation’. Other contributions have been selected following a call for best practice methods used in Europe to facilitate the internationalization of courses, which was circulated via the European Consortium for Political Research and its ‘Teaching and Learning Politics’ standing group.

We wish these examples of good practices are used to inform and inspire other teachers to internationalise their undergraduate and graduate level courses in order to make good use of diverse knowledge, skills and experiences of students to benefit student learning.