How to spark student start-ups
Universities are the ideal environment to turn ideas into businesses. Here’s how to encourage entrepreneurship and foster a start-up dynamic in your students
Use AI and the metaverse to keep your students engaged online
AI and virtual reality technology enables diverse learning experiences for online students. Discover how by applying universal design for learning principles
Is collaboration the key to digital accessibility?
Digital accessibility is ethically important, and a legal requirement, but it’s also a lot of work. Here’s how universities can collaborate and pool their expertise to…
The impact of business relationship managers in higher education
The role that bridges the gap between digital transformation and the wider university is often misunderstood. Here, Bhupinder Siran explains what a business relationship…
How industry certification can energise learning
With the IT sector changing too rapidly for traditional university teaching to keep up, why not try industry-aligned certifications? Find out how they can help students meet…
Copy, paste, learn: lessons from code programmers for the AI-enhanced classroom
Copying and pasting can be a powerful learning tool, whether it involves mindless copying or mindful reuse. Here’s how to use it without compromising academic…
Eight ways to use AI in active learning – and four challenges it brings
Use AI in active learning by deploying these eight strategies to integrate tools in your teaching. Plus, how to address four challenges when doing so
Is a ‘co-opetition’ model the way to safeguard higher education for future generations?
Shared support functions don’t mean the end of competition among institutions, writes Mark Thompson. Instead, collective thinking could focus effort on universities’…
Ensure AI serves institutions, not the other way around
We’d all prefer that AI tools helped us to do research and grade papers rather than take over campuses. Here’s how to develop AI tools for your institution responsibly
Rethink authentic assessment for the generative AI era
How can we integrate AI into authentic assessment? Consider inspiring a collaborative spirit, aligning technology with pedagogy and modelling a new mindset for…
Digital humanities 101
What makes ‘digital humanities’ different from ‘traditional humanities’, and how could it make your classroom more collaborative and creative?
Let’s look at AI as a reasoning partner, not a shortcut
The latest reasoning AI models, such as DeepSeek, offer an opportunity for universities to strengthen critical thinking in the next generation of workers
Tips for successful asynchronous teaching: creating engaging content, part one
Despite its flexibility and ability to reach across distance and time zones, asynchronous teaching is still seen as subpar when compared with in-person or even synchronous online…
Six reasons why open institutional publishing matters
A new wave of institutional publishers is changing the way we think about academic publishing. Here’s why they’re worth watching
Six ways to integrate AI for business school accreditation
Streamline the process of accreditation, create multi-modal communications and effectively manage data by harnessing the power of generative AI
Using AI to foster self-directed learning
You can promote self-directed learning by breaking down tasks and integrating an AI chatbot into your course management system. Here’s how
Beyond the black box: how DeepSeek could transform higher education
DeepSeek’s transparent reasoning process, accessibility, affordability and open-source model could have significant implications for higher education. Simon …
How to reimagine an existing subject
Immersive technology and student co-creation allowed educators to revamp a general education course. Here’s how they did it
Make your annual report sing
An annual report is a useful tool for promoting your institution’s work. Here’s how to coordinate its publication and get it seen
An AI toolkit for all aspects of academic life
Harness the power of technology to reshape the tasks that make up your day. Here are the best AI tools to use in higher education
Get students on board with AI for marking and feedback
AI can potentially augment feedback and marking, but we need to trial it first. Here is a blueprint for using enhanced feedback generation systems and gaining trust
DeepSeek and shallow moats: what does it mean for higher education?
DeepSeek’s arrival may have spooked the markets, but what does it mean for the research and development of LLMs? Higher education should avoid putting all its eggs in one…
Tap the mine of library data to help enhance your courses
University libraries offer a rich well of data for course enhancement teams, on everything from student engagement to which resources they’re using …
How a liberal arts college can embrace AI tools
Lingnan University president Joe Qin offers advice on using generative AI, building up the science side of liberal arts education and how to encourage staff to share …
How to integrate AI into strategy and business education
Incorporate AI into your teaching or ignore it and hope it fades from view? Let’s balance these two attitudes by raising our expectations of students
How to create a higher education AI policy
A successful university AI policy guides internal innovation and usage, directs resources and identifies key contacts for emergent needs. Here are the steps and…
The evolution of assignments in the age of generative AI
Instead of cracking down on AI use for written assignments, we just need to make our assessment smarter
An insider’s guide to how students use GenAI tools
There’s no doubt students are using GenAI in their assignments – but how? Miriam Wun and Nah Yong En talked to students to find out
Five key stages when embedding AI networking tools
The Ask an Alum AI tool is helping current students connect with alumni, develop networks and benefit from career advice. Here’s how to embed a digital networking…
The AI genie is out of the bottle – now what?
Generative AI is here to stay, so let’s build AI literacy, incorporate AI into assessment and craft solid policies for its use
Beyond Chat: how AI teaching assistants are transforming student support
Pedagogically integrated AI is like having knowledgeable support that understands course materials and objectives and, most importantly, can guide…
Harness the power of AI to preserve endangered art forms
Researchers breathed new life into Cantonese porcelain painting techniques using AI, equipping a new generation with traditional skills. Here’s how they did it
Four objectives to guide artificial intelligence’s impact on higher education
How can higher education leaders manage both the challenge and the opportunity artificial intelligence presents? Here are four objectives to guide the way
Future-proof software engineering students for an AI-dominated world
Software engineering is increasingly being shaped by generative AI. Here’s how to prepare your students for their future workplace
An academic’s guide to Bluesky
With many HE professionals making the switch to Bluesky, here are the steps you need to take to get started
It’s time to embrace digital equity
Ensuring digital equity at your institution requires prioritising accessibility and championing digital literacy, among other initiatives
We have to rethink academic integrity in a ‘post-plagiarism era’
What is the future of plagiarism as a concept in the AI age and what are the implications for academic integrity? This resource seeks to answer these questions,…
A four-step process to transform everyone into a fact-checker
The 4-Check strategy can help combat misinformation in the digital age. Here’s how to use it
Reduce admin burden with AI
How teachers can use AI to respond to student enquiries, provide feedback and create engaging learning content
How universities can use research to develop effective digital products
Tips on developing a user-led digital approach at your institution, based on the University of Exeter’s success
Creativity and innovation are the keys to reshaping learning
To keep education relevant and students engaged, classrooms have to move with the times. Here are several ways to keep pace with technological change
We should be using social media more to understand students
How to use netnography to improve communication with prospective and current students
Three ways to develop students’ AI literacy
Is higher education prepared for a future defined by AI, or do we need to do more to align education with technology’s changing landscape? Here are three…
How to align AI tools with teaching philosophies: a practical guide
Lucy Gill-Simmen provides a practical framework for integrating AI into teaching, while remaining true to your pedagogical principles
How can we use microlearning to enhance university teaching?
What are the benefits of microlearning and how can institutions ensure their courses suit the needs of digital natives?
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…
Boost your product in the marketplace of online education
Congratulations on using your entrepreneurial mindset to start an online educational business. Now what?
Welcome to your virtual reality-based classroom
VR innovation can make education truly inclusive and sustainable. Here’s how academics at UCL and Marmara University developed a virtual reality-based building
Creating flexible learning pathways for business students
Digital transformation isn’t about technology – it’s about people, writes Steve Hill. Learning experiences must fit into students’ lives rather than forcing them to fit their lives…
Retaining qualified IT staff is the key to cyber resilience
Practical guidance on training and empowering staff to maintain robust cyber-defences that protect students, the workforce and the institution as a whole
