Building an online course from scratch can seem overwhelming. Here, Jamie Gilbert Mikell shares basic guidelines for beginners to create streamlined and user-friendly online modules
Pardis Mahdavi and Loulou Hong speak with Inside Higher Ed editor Doug Lederman about their research into student engagement and the strategies they are finding that foster a culture of student wellbeing on campus.
Long Covid would hit anyone hard, no matter their job – but academia’s culture of high stress, high workloads and high expectations makes the impact greater still. Here, Kerstin Sailer offers advice for scholars living with the condition’s often debilitating symptoms
L’intelligence artificielle, un outil au potentiel considérable dans l’amélioration de l'apprentissage et du bien-être étudiant, en allégeant notamment la charge de travail des établissements dans de nombreux secteurs
Research and teaching are two sides of the knowledge coin: creation and dissemination. How do young scholars learn to balance these fundamental roles?
Asking more experienced students to volunteer to help first-years navigate their university journey can make all the difference in terms of belonging and confidence
Seven steps that guide students to become effective academic readers during their university studies, by Adrian Man Ho Lam
Teaching is fundamental to the higher education mission and student success. In this episode, educators from across the world offer their top teaching tips
Failure is essential in research, so we need to reframe it into an opportunity for learning, says Emma Williams
Higher education has become too aligned to specific economic interests and needs to be redirected to focus on regenerative values for the common good, argue Richard Hil, Kristen Lyons and Fern Thompsett
Reduce procrastination, forget multitasking and get the to-do list done. From delegating to prioritising urgent versus important tasks, here are six practical ways to balance teaching, research and service for university faculty
Leaders of research consortia face a difficult task in carrying out research and improving research capacity, but embedding a specialist team to make recommendations provides great gains
The key to promoting the uptake of new edtech tools and teaching innovation among faculty, based on research
Teaching at universities while also working in industry can require superhuman powers of organisation. Brooke Wilson offers pointers for staying on top of things
Assessing a merger’s viability, as well as prioritising trust, openness and maintaining organisational cultures are key to success, says Kayla Vasilko