Small worlds and short stories: play, pleasure and imagination deployed as a salve to isolated learning

This special issue is a collection of brief reflections on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on teaching and learning in HE. The Compendium records the experiences of a wide range of scholars and academic practitioners, including learning developers, educational developers, lecturers and tutors, and the ways they responded to the emergency move to online teaching. It contains 102 short pieces organised into eleven thematic sections that explore different challenges posed by the pandemic while proposing recommendations for future innovative practice in global HE.