We're all in the same boat: humanising teaching and learning experiences as a way to achieve engaging and interactive online provision.

The article offers information and insight into how the Study Skills Tutors responded to the transition to online learning because of the Covid-19 pandemic. It focuses on the importance of interactive learning strategies and teacher attitude to increase learning in the AUB context. The article briefly presents in-person teaching techniques, clearly outlines the issues presented by the move to online learning and finishes with solutions to these issues – humanising teaching by changing teacher attitude and dropping the ‘expert’ persona, which resulted in developing and undertaking activities to encourage and promote interaction in online workshops. Due to teachers acknowledging everyone was in this new situation together, the teaching and learning activities were adapted: there were paced differently and allowed for more flexibility of choice. The positive outcome of that shift was reflected in the feedback for online sessions and noticeable differences between semesters one and two were observed.