Teaching and learning

Interdisciplinarity will not meet its problem-solving potential unless graduates are primed to embrace challenges, says Paul O’Keefe

Proposed acquisition of Ouriginal would give academic integrity giant vast majority of market

‘Tesla’ creators say accuracy and security in design were more important than rushed roll-out

Technical incompatibilities and privacy law risk preventing universities communicating to optimise individualised learning, says Gerd Kortemeyer

Encouraging students to start a business could do more harm than good, researchers say

Online teaching could have been much better if institutions had previously taken a communal approach to digital evolution, says Doug Specht

Amid demographic decline and geopolitical isolation, island hopes to have more English-language courses

NYU provost suggests model of in-person elite higher education will endure

Director promises action as QAA says prestigious institution failing to meet sector standards and struggling to adapt to Covid-19

Putting aside questions of sexism, racism and homophobia, Australian literature review finds that SETs are just poor science

Complaints about essay mills peaked as online delivery concerns subsided, regulator’s report says

Plymouth research shows teaching through immersive modules improved marks by about 4 percentage points

Sciences and humanities to be taught side by side starting this year in two leading institutions

A strategic rejection of digital instruction is akin to France’s short-sighted attempt to prevent invasion in the 1930s, says Robert Zaretsky

‘Extremely careful’ attitude reflects scepticism over vaccine roll-out, but also unexpected success of forced switch to online learning

Playwright can help us see beyond the limitations of the biomedical model, argues palliative care doctor

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Covid-19 have buried the idea that learning for learning’s sake is enough, says Nancy Gleason

BAME scholars have relished the chance to be creators and performers in their own space, free to express themselves fully and creatively, says Jonathan Wilson

Anna McKie talks to three experts about the benefits of embedding the concept of students co-creating their own learning

We must fight the urge to want to play with shiny new toys even more than educate our classes, says George Justice

The use of the messaging app for cheating is apparently rife, bringing the whole viability of online exams into question, says Daniel Sokol

Despite evidence that images can support higher-level thinking, their application is still marginalised, say Nataša Lacković and Zoe Hurley

New assessment strategies are required to promote the types of learning needed in the 21st century, says Danny Oppenheimer

We must do more to support learners from both individualistic and collectivistic cultures, says Flower Darby

Healthcare education must re-evaluate the importance of learning academic values versus meeting competence measures, say four academics

Requirement for trainee doctors to undertake training in the bush has not been enough to keep them there after graduation

Students’ use of the website to cheat has exploded during the pandemic, according to researchers, but its legitimate uses put universities in a difficult position

Student services aren’t enough. Academics are universities’ engine room, so must be the driving force of mental health reform, says Geoff Mills

In a world accustomed to beautiful, frictionless digital experiences, most online education looks like websites from the 1990s, says Louise McElvogue 

Students at overseas outposts are more negative about teaching quality, academic environment and engagement, according to paper

The pandemic has exposed the limits that commercial models impose on libraries’ ability to facilitate access, says Gauthier Van Malderen

Will institutions be willing to invest in the spaces, technology and workload support required to effectively teach these methods? asks Amanda White

If writers aren’t held responsible for their words, they have no incentive to write reflectively and precisely, says Joe Moran

We do our students a disservice by not educating ourselves on disruptive technologies such as VR and machine learning, says Christine Janssen 

The circle can be squared via long-term projects conducted outside the regular timetable, says Lindy Elkins-Tanton

The promise of the new lifelong learning loan allowance is undermined by the insistence on separate and impermeable tracks, says Tim Blackman

The emerging online demand for expert content offers an opportunity to scholars working outside formal academia, says Anton Howes

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

Successful learning design can happen only when academics and learning designers work in partnership, says Amy Sampson

Digitisation opens up a world of possibility but it doesn’t compensate for the loss of physical interaction, says Mark Griffin

Grim statistics on single-honours enrolments belie an explosion in joint-honours provision, says Katherine Astbury

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

My plumber made me realise that being just a ‘professional and efficient’ teacher wouldn’t cut it during this time of transition, says Peter Vanberkel

Putting the onus on students to maintain honour can be effective but it takes time to assimilate the mindset, says Sara Pervaiz Amjad

The pandemic brought out the best in teaching staff in many universities. Yet countervailing forces are stamping out their creativity, warns Andy Farnell

We know that employing learners as active co-creators of their learning builds opportunities for knowledge absorption, say Guy Daly and Andrew Turner

Students who ‘strategically’ jettison subjects early are among the least likely to complete courses, Australian research finds

Anna McKie reports on latest innovations in chatbots and how AI-based technology can be developed to improve teaching and learning in universities

Badly designed sessions are big on waste: waste of talent, waste of concentration, waste of ability and waste of time, says Christian Gilliam

Major study finds major differences in academic development across China, India, Russia and the US

Many of us with learning disabilities struggle to process hour-long lecture recordings but pedagogical flexibility and online support offer new ways ahead, says Gemma Ahearne

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

Sir Michael Barber’s blueprint can help digital delivery enhance learning rather than acting as an inconvenient stopgap, says David Puttnam

Survey for regulator finds teaching staff more likely to lack access to right technology and support compared with students, and are less confident in their skills

Digital divide is ‘greatest challenge’ facing country’s education system in Covid era, researchers say

Chinese ministry sanctions Australia’s joint programmes even though analyses highlight endemic problems in foreign teaching collaborations

Actors? Videographers? Graphic designers? Covid has forced academics to wear many uncomfortable hats, say Christine Rivers and Anna Holland

Pausing the assessment timetable for tenure and promotion may seem helpful, but it will actually deepen disparities on campus, says Jennifer Greenfield

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

Estimate of emissions generated by staff and students during lockdown virtually the same as campus commuting