University teachers must kick their dopamine addiction

Academics are not content creators and it's regressive to try and make them so

Academics aren’t content creators, and it’s regressive to make them so

A video by a professor for only their class is akin to the single-copy, handwritten book disseminated to just one room of people, says David Kellermann

By David Kellermann

8 March

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Workaholic academics need to stop taking pride in their burnout

It is precisely by getting their priorities straight that established academics can, and must, set a better example, say Fleur Jongepier and Mathijs van de Sande

By Fleur Jongepier

4 March

Students sitting in lecture with girl thinking at laptop

The shift online gives new significance to the pen v laptop debate

My research inspired laptop bans in classrooms around the world, but we need nuance in our thinking about using technology, says Danny Oppenheimer

By Danny Oppenheimer

18 February

Online learning should not be seen as the poor relation

We must stop letting online teaching be cast as the ‘poor relation’

Many students have not had their expectations met, but it’s unhelpful to assume this is a systemic online teaching and learning issue, says Linda Kaye

By Linda Kaye

26 February

University teachers must kick their dopamine addiction

In a good asynchronous class, students are still learning, just not in a way that produces a post-performance high for educators, says Zachary Michael Jack

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