Teaching and learning

Transitioning to remote and hybrid modes has made the university experience about more than the transmission of knowledge, says Sergio Pulgarín Molina

The summer marking marathon is among the most dreary of academic duties. Thank goodness students can appeal, says Brian Bloch

Artificial intelligence will soon be able to research and write essays as well as humans can. So will genuine education be swept away by a tidal wave of cheating – or is AI just another technical aid that teaching and assessment will evolve to take account of? John Ross reports

Researchers argue that classroom design must encourage interaction between students and lecturers

We should embrace the possibility of degrees made up of a pick-and-mix of modules from around the world – but comparability is crucial, says Nick Isles

As we emerge from the pandemic, we can expect to see a new range of online and blended options, says Mark Stevenson

Lord Storey says he would be happy for government to take over legislation ‘as issue is more important than the politics of it’

Letter to council says there has been a ‘deliberate breach’ of university policies in redundancy dispute

Wider take-up by academics requires both relevance to specific disciplines and accessibility across disciplines, says Camille Kandiko Howson

Registered reports model produces better outcomes on all 19 criteria covering novelty, rigour, and importance

Hepi-Advance HE survey finds growing frustration with UK university courses in a year of major upheaval

‘Patronising’ to expect lower standards from students from disadvantaged backgrounds, says OfS following newspaper report

Many UK institutions say they do not plan to return to pre-pandemic methods and will use next academic year to test new approaches

Some students have abused privacy allowances and marking latitude – but others’ ongoing engagement has been heartening, says Robert Zaretsky

Governments have focused on building up a lavishly funded research elite, but the forced switch online has made them realise losers in this system cannot cope

The pandemic has not hit all students’ learning equally. Anna McKie talks to two experts on how to spot those who may have fallen behind and help them get up to speed

Dartmouth case seen as exposing national unpreparedness for online exams that predated Covid and still needs fixing

Still much to be said for old-fashioned media that operate ‘at the speed of human thinking’, book suggests

Liverpool and Leicester plan to scale back moderation and external examining, and to use algorithms to generate grades

Covid and its financial fallout are serious, but managers must grasp the impact of their operating experiments on teaching and learning, says Binoy Kampmark

Lisa Roberts highlights increasing state school admissions as key priority and rejects ‘death of the lecture’ strategy

Sustainable development expert Jeffrey Sachs also warns against rise of a ‘monopoly Amazon university’

A PowerPoint marathon or a ‘captured’ lecture will always be a pale imitation of a live experience, in which an expert practitioner taps into ‘the dangerous energy of all those watching eyes’, says Richard Sugg

Universities need to establish clear and transparent criteria for assessing those with borderline results, argues Andy Grayson

Survey of German students finds higher levels of cheating during online exams than in on-site exams for the 2020 summer semester

Gender bias in student reviews leads vulnerable females to be more lenient in their assessments, large analysis finds

Embattled university president in staunchly conservative state sees business-world allies valuing benefits of under-fire course

Students would be far better advised to focus on demonstrating their mastery of research skills, says Gordon Message

Alice Gast says the pandemic has shown the need for crucial changes in universities

‘Tinkering with an outmoded’ approach is not enough, Tan Eng Chye tells THE event

Innovative approaches can help students become more empathetic and skilled at decision-making as well as better historians

Expecting academics to effectively review potential cheating incidents is unrealistic and ineffective, says Scott McFarland

Universities have a unique opportunity to shape the post-pandemic future by promoting innovation and creativity for wider social impact, says Tan Eng Chye

Her long career as a psychologist and a college president has shown Beverly Daniel Tatum how crucial racial identity formation is and how overriding negative stereotypes about minority students’ performance can be like ‘water in a parched land’. Matthew Reisz hears why

Meta-analysis of meta-analyses finds incontrovertible benefits, particularly in ‘authoritarian’ teaching cultures

UPP polling suggests criticism of universities that are sticking with digital lectures may not be entirely justified

For some students, but certainly not all, ‘this version of learning is way better than anything that existed before’

The legal, security and emotional challenges must not get in the way of proper teaching and research into this crucial issue, says William Allchorn

Universities’ nominal control of undergraduate medical training belies the fractured reality, says Jonathan Rees

Nobel prizewinner Brian Schmidt warns that remaining institutions would become ‘bastions of the elite’

Online exams are unfair and hard to police, even with creepy levels of invasiveness, says Helen Soteriou  

Effect also more pronounced for science subjects, according to study of class sizes at UK university

Imperial creates tool to analyse geographic distribution of authors on reading lists and socio-economic status of their country

Even in a post-pandemic era of STEM and vocational education, the study of history must remain an option for all, says Sir Keith Burnett

Sally Mapstone tells QAA conference that lecture will continue to evolve, but will not disappear

Faculty must draw on abilities they have developed in the classroom to steer administrators in the right direction, says Karen Spierling

New campus to be set up with industry-friendly ‘hubs’, not faculties 

Interdisciplinarity will not meet its problem-solving potential unless graduates are primed to embrace challenges, says Paul O’Keefe

Proposed acquisition of Ouriginal would give academic integrity giant vast majority of market

‘Tesla’ creators say accuracy and security in design were more important than rushed roll-out

Technical incompatibilities and privacy law risk preventing universities communicating to optimise individualised learning, says Gerd Kortemeyer

Encouraging students to start a business could do more harm than good, researchers say

Online teaching could have been much better if institutions had previously taken a communal approach to digital evolution, says Doug Specht

Amid demographic decline and geopolitical isolation, island hopes to have more English-language courses

NYU provost suggests model of in-person elite higher education will endure

Director promises action as QAA says prestigious institution failing to meet sector standards and struggling to adapt to Covid-19

Putting aside questions of sexism, racism and homophobia, Australian literature review finds that SETs are just poor science

Complaints about essay mills peaked as online delivery concerns subsided, regulator’s report says

Plymouth research shows teaching through immersive modules improved marks by about 4 percentage points

Sciences and humanities to be taught side by side starting this year in two leading institutions