Technology and new media

Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence, argues Robert MacIntosh

Alliances between institutions to become increasingly important, says Sheffield vice-chancellor

Imperial College London president predicts that higher education institutions will follow global corporations in screening applicants using AI-based algorithms

Universities must dramatically increase their levels of technical training to close the skills gap and deliver social justice, says Robert Halfon

The broad trends in AI may be unstoppable, but we must find better ways of directing and regulating them, argues Toronto’s Mark Kingwell

Candace Thille's move may reflect shift in focus of online learning initiatives

John Gilbey on a welcome guide to the thorny legal and ethical issues of a new technological era 

Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses

Technology behind Bitcoin is not just hype, say advocates, but could prevent data tampering and improve reproducibility

As part of a US initiative, undergraduates are given assignments to create articles, helping to develop critical appraisal skills

Martin Hamilton on four edtech trends to look out for over the next 12 months

Jack Chappell launched distributed denial of service attack against Janet service

It may be five years since Moocs went mainstream, but Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy believe they still have the potential to reach the hard-to-reach

Open University vice-chancellor claims that courses curated by technology giants might be more attractive than Russell Group’s offerings

Critics warn new 'Manuscript Writer' program may be too good to be true, since automated content could run the risk of plagiarism

Jisc has revealed its top social media superstars of the year, writes Chris Parr

ScholarlyHub will help academics keep control of their work and data, creators argue

Scholars are increasingly willing to use other people’s data in their research, writes Mark Hahnel 

Internet entrepreneurs will not rest until they have made physical universities obsolete, predicts Glyn Davis

Shift to lifelong learning opens up opportunities for ‘niche, digital’ providers, says Glyn Davis

Universities are very much at the forefront of efforts to extract the most value from artificial intelligence, writes Dame Wendy Hall

Accurate translation apps could have a ‘major impact’ on academia, some scholars believe, but others unconvinced

Tasmanian researchers find it takes 10 hours to plan an hour’s lecture for online students, compared to eight hours for on-campus delivery

Canada and Finland also score highly in research assessing the effectiveness of education systems in 35 economies

An academic parent, a student and two researchers consider if the metrics approach is really the game changer for improving student outcomes that many claim, or if it has a dark side

Eric Mazur, father of the ‘flipped classroom’, says rethinking assessment is the next frontier

Advocates say that the technology will cut out degree fraud – but could it actually help to fracture universities?

A survey of 50 laureates is full of insight, warnings and the can-do attitudes powering ‘beautiful minds’

Academics able to link their expertise to world events can raise their personal and institutional profiles to previously unimaginable levels, says Russell Reader

Digital humanities pioneer Gregory Crane argues academics are failing to fully utilise the new tools of scholarship

New Durham course explores how Christians can engage with online realm

Paul Feldman explains why the UK must be ready to embrace research collaborations on an increasingly international scale

Geoffrey Boulton writes the first in a series of articles from Jisc on research in the age of open science

Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant

Company accused of profiting from students’ intellectual property

US university leader explains how top teachers were selected to design a new multimillion-dollar teaching centre

Victoria Leonard on bringing equality to the world's largest reference tool

University of Glasgow research indicates students can improve communication and thinking ability by playing computer games

Four experts offer their advice on getting the most out of social media as an academic

Acquisition of Publons by Clarivate Analytics sets the scene for major expansion

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Charles Chen Yidan says today’s education systems are ‘not suited to tomorrow’s society’

Dragan Gasevic looks at how learning analytics can be used to support the student experience as a tool for learning gain

‘Alex’, set to be rolled out at the Technical University of Berlin, is first chatbot to have benefits to students measured

Analysis of scholarly publishing’s ‘Napster’ shows that academics are not prepared to wait to access research

Increased scrutiny of US sector and distrust of academics puts traditional quality assurance models in question

Technologist argues that artificial intelligence could make publishing decisions in milliseconds

Augmented reality and game-based learning among the innovations set to transform higher education

Ian Jacobs says visits by hundreds of thousands of international and lifelong learners on short courses will transform campus life

US researchers claim 76 per cent success rate in using video analysis to identify likely misconduct

Joint honours approach attracts more women and ethnic minorities to field, says Northeastern dean

Academic calls on Facebook and Twitter to share more information with scholars

Researchers say students who use computers score half a grade lower than those who write notes

Facebook pioneer discusses improving diversity in tech industry and universities

Conference hears educators are neglecting technology because of ‘obsession’ with dated approaches

Steve Keen laments loss of ‘time and freedom’ for universities’ ‘original thinkers’

Ahead of Jisc Digifest 2017, Geoff Mulgan has some words of advice for those involved in digital education

Research shows certain online tools can help ‘avoid detection’ by plagiarism checking software

We must help students become savvy net users, so they can be savvy citizens navigating the post-truth era, says Dana Ruggiero

Technology identified by NMC Horizon Report as having ‘potential to enhance’ online learning

What will hold back the use of technology in higher education over the next five years?