How to be visible as an academic
Working hard and taking on extra responsibilities isn't enough to guarantee career development these days. You also have to build your profile
August 29, 2024
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Supporting parent academics through staff networks
The power of a combined voice can make working life easier for university faculty and staff with children. Here, Judith Lock lays out the challenges of mixing parenthood with academia and how networks lead to more family-friendly campuses
August 28, 2024 -
Making group work work: how to enable successful student collaboration
How can we help students collaborate without weighing down staff with extra admin? First-year interdisciplinary research projects could be the answer
August 28, 2024 -
Harness the power of ‘I wonder’ in your teaching
By embracing the power of ‘I wonder’, we can transform our physical and virtual classrooms into dynamic spaces for exploration and discovery, creating a more inclusive and responsive educational atmosphere
August 28, 2024 -
Evaluating the role of AI in digital assessments across APAC
With AI transforming the education landscape, finding a balance between AI and human interventions in assessments is a challenge that universities must address
August 27, 2024 -
Is assessment integrity possible in the age of AI?
The existence of generative AI does not mean that genuine assessment has become impossible. Reframing universities’ approaches and engaging students can enhance integrity
August 27, 2024 -
How comfortable are your students with AI and VR?
To train tomorrow’s workforce, higher education institutions must assess students’ technological familiarity, their readiness to engage with advanced tools and their purposes for using them. Here are two ways to gather data
August 27, 2024 -
Three ways to promote critical engagement with GenAI
However much we fear AI's impact or despise its outputs, when teaching humanities, the best response is to encourage students to engage with it critically
August 27, 2024 -
Tips for implementing blended learning in medical education in a post-pandemic world
The Covid-19 pandemic triggered a switch to blended learning in medical education. How will it continue to evolve and how best to use it?
August 27, 2024 -
Taking an administrative office performance from process-focused to people-driven
Improving processes can start with an objective to help team members be happy in their jobs while supporting their office’s activities. These steps focus on staff, faculty and students rather than systems
August 26, 2024 -
The humble whiteboard: the most flexible learning tool in your classroom
The whiteboard serves as a powerful tool to help students visualise concepts, facilitate group work and provide immediate feedback, aligning with the theory that knowledge is built through active, hands-on experiences
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Conjure the magic of learning with facilitation
When facilitating learning, planning and versatility are key. Here’s how to balance the two
August 23, 2024 -
Three ways to optimise your business school’s AI-related offering
As workforces change, chunks of business schools’ curricula risk becoming outdated and irrelevant. Here are three ways institutions can adapt their teaching to bridge the AI-driven skills gap
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Don’t forget Bloom’s Taxonomy’s ‘remembering’ level
Bloom’s Taxonomy is a pedagogical framework covering six levels: remembering, understanding, applying, analysing, evaluating and creating. Building a strong foundation to help students store and retrieve information is crucial
August 22, 2024 -
Centralise laboratory management for better teaching and research
Creating a single department to oversee laboratory operations can streamline your processes and cut costs. Here’s how to do it
August 22, 2024