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Copyright © 2025 THE - Times Higher Education. All rights reserved. It ’ s time to embrace digital equity
Ensuring digital equity at your institution requires prioritising accessibility and championing digital literacy , among other initiatives
Key strategies for successfully marketing an online course
Highlighting multimedia aspects , networking opportunities and the value of your course ’ s credential value are some of the ways institutions should be …
To trigger - warn or not to trigger - warn : that is the question
An instructor subjectively defines what they consider triggering , so how useful are they and how can we get trigger warnings right ?
Developing an effective orientation programme for families and friends
Bring families and friends into the onboarding process to ease first - year students into university life
How to tackle the PhD dissertation
Finding time to write can be a challenge for graduate students who often juggle multiple roles and responsibilities . Mabel Ho provides some tips to make …
Designing assessments with generative AI in mind
A new era of AI requires a balance between thoughtfully mitigating and responsibly promoting student use of new tools
Open access : why and how to do it
Here , a librarian and master of information student offer insight into facets of open access publishing and the challenges relating to it
How to foster a civic mindset in the era of AI
Create spaces that allow small groups of people to see themselves in a broader context , encourage them to dream of what possibilities and opportunities could exist and …
Improve women ’ s accessibility to leadership by following these steps
Weaving equity practices into talent and succession planning and creating roles that work alongside personal commitments are just two of the ways you can enhance …
We set up a thought leadership programme to amplify PhD research
Dalhousie ' s OpenThink programme shows how universities can empower the next generation of thought leaders and facilitate public engagement
