After torrid year, can edtech firms crack professional education?
With most major players making redundancies and tightening their belts, edtech has faced a difficult year, but could moves into career development save the industry?
With most major players making redundancies and tightening their belts, edtech has faced a difficult year, but could moves into career development save the industry?
Allowance needed for ‘upfront’ time cost of creating digital content, event hears
Experts say institution’s decision to scrap plans to build ‘gargantuan lecture hall’ provides ammunition to the argument for more evidence-based pedagogical practices
Successful learning design can happen only when academics and learning designers work in partnership, says Amy Sampson
THE forum told that global collaboration between academics on online pedagogy is key
As online teaching increases, cutting casualised and short-term staff will cost more down the line, conference hears
Topics including strategising, the benefits of online learning, and international research will be explored in conversations across two virtual stages
Institutional, pedagogical and workload issues more problematic than technological impediments, experts say
While much harm has been done by epidemic, institutions could use crisis to sharpen strategies and practices in areas such as internationalisation and e-learning, experts say
Download the podcastIn this podcast special, Times Higher Education reporter Chris Parr discusses online education with Diana Laurillard, professor of learning with digital technologies at University...
The UK’s largest university is respected for its innovative approach to distance learning, but its impact on wider higher education is varied, experts say
Publisher argues Topics platform will provide ‘breadth, depth and currency of knowledge’, and remove the need to leave its website
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
Australia invented the “income contingent contribution” concept, a much better way to see the student contribution.When the Dearing Committee first debated the principle in 1996, the lifetime...
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