Technology and new media

Online teaching has allowed less-confident students, so often female, to create for themselves a space in which to speak, says Madeleine Davies

The move online allows students the opportunity to broaden their knowledge and learn from a variety of sources, says Tom Collinson

Online graduation rates are much lower than those for conventional degrees. It’s time to ‘re-personalise’ remote learning, says Ormond Simpson

It won’t be long before we’re all looking to immersive technology to further students’ learning, says Mary Matheson

Universities should partner with students instead of treating them like passive recipients of our superior knowledge, says Simone Buitendijk

Providing opportunities for entrepreneurism and learning from start-up culture is no longer a cool optional extra for universities − it is a necessity, says Sam Robertson

Amid mass online instruction, universities need to up their game around digital safeguarding and student welfare, say Andy Phippen and Emma Bond

Cyberpsychology expert Linda Kaye says it’s crucial that we understand the personal, social and educational implications of the shift to online teaching and learning

Give undergraduates knowledge that they can apply widely in the workplace, not expertise in particular programmes, say experts

Daily check-ins launched during the Covid outbreak appear to be increasingly normalised

Adam Batstone has been making podcasts for more than 20 years. Here he chooses the best university podcasts out there and, with the need for online engagement growing by the week, provides tips on how to do it yourself

Mass reliance on the traditional 50-minute lecture format will soon be a thing of the past, says David Maguire

Helping launch UCL’s online-only MBA this year provided James Berry with keen insights into the ways universities can invest in the future

Anna McKie hears from three experts about using peer observation to improve teaching and how it can still be applied while teaching online

THE’s new Careers Clinic series brings together the great and the good of higher education to answer a burning careers question

Struggling financially, the private Jacobs University is seeking new backers, but academics have been left shocked by plans for it to be turned into an AI institute by software giants

Campaigners claim forcing staff to reapply for jobs with lower salaries will damage Imperial and leave institution vulnerable

Australian proposal the latest in a raft of security-related interventions

From acknowledging Covid stress to having every participant logged into Zoom, Paul Moss breaks down the art of mixed-cohort tutorials

Academics are well aware that jetting off to international conferences damages the climate, but for some, there is a much bigger source of emissions

Students who up their engagement later on struggle to catch the early starters, says study

Chemical engineers at Imperial College London have developed an innovative way of teaching real-world experiments at a distance, and say it also improves learning outcomes

Covid-19 has elevated the already considerable cyber risks universities face from without and within, Australian consultants warn

‘HyFlex’ learning and cutting-edge virtual reality techniques set to help students and staff bridge physical and language barriers

Survey from Association of Commonwealth Universities shows struggle that academics have in going digital compared with institutional leaders 

Panel stresses importance of ethics training for field that generates moral questions ‘on steroids’

The pivot to online learning during the coronavirus pandemic has shown why university educators should embrace artificial intelligence, says Y. J. Jang

With the Covid-19 pandemic likely to prolong the need for mass online learning for some time, we seek the experts’ advice on how to do it well – from designing courses and maintaining engagement to choosing applications and carrying out experiments remotely

Sustainable changes in digital learning will result from best practice alongside bold experimentation, say Friedrich Hesse, Volker Meyer-Guckel, Bitange Ndemo, Alexandros Papaspyridis, Rahim Rajan and Suzanne Walsh

Some data suggest institutions are devoting little to their defences and, as attacks become routine, experts say that open, decentralised universities are vulnerable

The virtual reality technology market is booming thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Jack Grove asks whether it might finally catch on in higher education

Commission recommends launch of Digital Service Academy to address shortage of talent in federal government

Liverpool chemists create AI-powered machine that works in standard laboratory and has already discovered a new catalyst

Student wariness may deliver final blow to crisis-weakened institutions

McGraw-Hill and Cengage abandon union after government demands heavy culling

Weekly broadcast from University of Toronto vice-president has captured the attention of thousands

After rejection of virtual peer review, federal agency halts new awards, prompting concerns for younger researchers

Graduates’ common lack of deep understanding about how AI works is hindering industry take-up, says Min Wanli

Continuing remote teaching in the autumn will be unsustainable for some institutions, warns leader of online college

Many universities have begun to teach online amid concerns that traditional classes could spread the coronavirus. Yale-NUS lecturer Catherine Shea Sanger explains how it can be done quickly and effectively

Universities in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium have all suffered recent attacks, prompting calls for institutions to join forces

Brussels wants to create centre hosting ‘the best talents in the field’, but some researchers doubt that a single organisation can tackle all the challenges

Developing countries cannot cower from technological progress if they and all their citizens are to advance, argues Tshilidzi Marwala

Institutional, pedagogical and workload issues more problematic than technological impediments, experts say

Transition away from end-of-course exams may also increase staff workloads, says report

Data suggest the subject has one of the highest shares of students from other EU nations in UK universities

Joybrato Mukherjee says Chinese researchers ‘not always on the same page’ over IP – and looks forward to a VR-enabled ‘entirely virtual semester abroad’

Companies retreat for now, but see the technology’s spread as inevitable

Information collected from educational tools can be highly sensitive, and very valuable – triggering calls for learners to have more say in what happens to it

Latest Innovating Pedagogy report suggests way gamers learn from each other online could be adopted by universities

Study suggests that ‘predatory’ spam targeted specifically at scholars costs universities $1.1 billion annually

Marc Tessier-Lavigne discusses diversifying student intake and focusing on ethics of new technologies in Times Higher Education interview

Academics able to specify areas of interest to collect imagery of

Malaysian historian spies signs that liberal arts’ 200-year ebb may be ending as unpredictability of employment puts paid to utilitarian education

The dream of robot researchers is edging closer with automated laboratory producing five years of experiments in just two weeks, experts claim

Would-be scholars confronted with academics’ tweets could be forgiven for running for the hills, worries Scott Rich 

Industry and government alone cannot oversee new technology, experts say  

Caught up in a national anxiety about falling behind technologically, universities have recruited hundreds of new professors including data experts and digital humanities professors

Findings highlight need for ‘carefully considered’ use of platform as an educational tool

Academic experts amazed at the speed of development in AI that enables new technology delivering financial services