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As the types and amounts of personal data increase, users and institutions need to strengthen the ways they protect the sensitive information they col
If we take the same critical lens to in-person learning as we once did to online, rationalising our need for the former, how much better could we make our teaching?
Although decisions can often be made more easily in echo chambers, leaders should learn how to break out of their comfort zones of agreement in order
In this article we share testimonials from our professors about their personal experience with online education.
The post contains a continuously updated list of higher education research societies around the world, national and international. The list is occasionally updated.
The forced transition to online university learning will mean teaching practices will be permanently changed.
In virtually all our endeavours in the academy, collaboration is valued – so why is the classroom an exception, ask Kwong Nui Sim and Michael Cowling
A free course covering key introductory learning and teaching concepts and strategies for those in their first few years of university teaching.
Mays Imad offers 10 teaching strategies to support students and help them continue to learn during this time of uncertainty.
Lecturers are opening up about teaching, sharing ideas and taking student engagement seriously
Higher education has, in some ways, woken up to the realities of demographic and technological change. Institutions can’t keep preparing the sam
Undergraduates notice when you don’t make an effort to remember them — and they work harder when you do.
Colleges can innovate their way out of some problems. Others — like those distracted students in the back of the auditorium — may be harder to crack.
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If we keep telling Americans kids not to go to college, America will lose its economic and military edge.
The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education highlights the importance of developing blended professionalism as a way of future-proofing Higher Education leadership, strategy, and outcomes.
With carefully chosen international contributors, this book discusses the rationale for championing blended/integrated practitioners and uses a narrative case study approach to uncover the value, identities, and impact of these individuals who work across institutional boundaries, to promote
The switch to online delivery further disadvantaged students from migrant and refugee backgrounds. But a new study also finds many students and staff developed closer and more caring relationships.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson says students should expect in-person teaching for new term.
Workplace stress among academics has long been higher in Australia and New Zealand than overseas, and research suggests the flow-on impacts on students could fuel a vicious cycle of negative feedback.
Universities are a prime target for cyber attacks and the weakest links in their defences are all the non-expert users of their systems. Teaching everyone basic cyber hygiene is vital.
The Australian National University’s vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt told staff last week:: “We need our teachers to be more than just people who stand at the front of the lecture hall or before a video camera. We need them to connect with their students in richer ways. This might include fewer lectures, and those that we do deliver, will be memorable and sophisticated, utilising technology.”
University teaching is a complex task. When we first start to teach, nothing is automatic. Everything has to be carefully thought through. This MOOC introduces new teachers to key learning and teaching concepts and strategies in easily studied, two hour modules - just in time, just for you. Modules cover topics like strategies to teach that first class, giving feedback, facilitating group work, and online teaching. Happy teaching.
The challenges experienced by Ballarat Technical Art School students during the first half of the twentieth century are not dissimilar to the challenges today.
For the first time in 28 years, I am not starting the academic year in a classroom. Today is the first day of the 2020-2021 academic year and I will be at home. No stacks of syllabi to distribute on the first day. No new outfit or bag to carry my stuff to class. No excited early arrival at work to o
This is partly prompted by Jesse Strommel’s post here warning against pedagogical models. Jesse has been a voice of reason and humanity in many debates about how we teach and how we relate to students in higher education – not just in situations where technology plays a part, but more generally. He works in North America and…
Cash-strapped universities might be tempted by AI tutors, but they cannot reproduce human creativity or insight
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