Today's Learner

APRIL 24, 2025

Ethical considerations and academic integrity Even with its benefits, the ascent of AI in academia has raised concerns about academic integrity. Written by Dr. Neisa Jenkins, Professor at DeVry University Interested in practical strategies for integrating AI as a resource in discussion-based learning?

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HEPI

OCTOBER 30, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University.

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Coursera blog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

His story that culminates with the University of Illinois Gies College of Business highlights the transformative power of education and its profound impact on personal and professional growth. Steves educational journey began decades ago at the University of Cincinnati, where he was just four classes shy of completing his degree.

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SRHE

APRIL 28, 2025

by John Kenny This blog post is based on research into the effectiveness of higher education policy, published in Policy Reviews in Higher Education. Of particular concern in this article is how the academic role interacts with other stakeholders, especially the government regulators and university corporate leaders.

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ACRLog

APRIL 14, 2025

Sam is the Open Knowledge & Research Impact Librarian at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. At the risk of redirecting readers from ACRLog in my very first post, Ive been thinking a lot about a recent exchange that occurred between two other blog-like spaces. Prior to librarianship, Sam received a Ph.D.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Sir Anton Muscatelli, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow. There are always interesting ‘moments’ in the relationship between incoming governments and universities. Universities however retained their autonomy. This led to two major developments.

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HEPI

APRIL 30, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Dr Shadi Hijazi, Principal Consultant at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. But in the midst of an artificial intelligence gold rush, can universities ensure everyone plays fair? Each of these areas has AI implications, implementations and ethical aspects that universities can work on.

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LSE Higher Education Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Key ingredients I prepared a draft of the paper, presented it at a relevant international conference, and then discussed it with a highly esteemed collaborator, David Boud from Deakin University, Australia, inviting him to join as second author.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This blog was kindly contributed by Lucy Haire, Director of Partnerships at HEPI. While this short blog does not capture every aspect of the rich and wide-ranging discussions which took place under the Chatham House Rule, it offers five key ideas thrown up by the thirty-strong group of experienced and passionate professionals.

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HEPI

JUNE 13, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Zeki Turedi , Chief Technology Officer for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at CrowdStrike. UK universities have been a consistent target of choice by cyber-attackers in recent years. Increasingly, these adversaries are using the endpoint as a perch to pivot to cloud infrastructure.

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HEPI

JUNE 25, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Stuart Mitchell, Centre Manager, and Hannes Read , Policy and Data Analyst, both at the City-Region Economic Development Institute at the University of Birmingham. A life outside of academia PhDs are for life, not just for academia. of white people.

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totallyrewired

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following blog post was created entirely by AI (MS Teams/Claude/ChatGPT/DALL-E). Generative AI and automating academia in the style of Bauhaus The landscape of academia is undergoing a seismic shift with the advent of generative AI tools like ChatGPT.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Should top university leadership roles be open to non-PhDs? " The (mostly) accepted consensus within academia is that a terminal degree is almost always table stakes for most academic leadership roles. We have many examples of university leaders who came from traditional disciplinary backgrounds.

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HEPI

JANUARY 4, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Yike Guo. Professor Guo spent 34 years at Imperial College London studying AI, data mining, machine learning, and large-scale data management before becoming Provost of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) in 2022.

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HEPI

OCTOBER 16, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Dr Blessing Marandure, Senior Lecturer in Psychology and Fair Outcomes Champion on the Decolonising DMU Project at De Montfort University. per cent of the student body.

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SRHE

JULY 19, 2024

Just about everyone in academia is dealing with some aspect of their lives which affects how they do their work. While a body of literature exists on factors that affect student academic performance in university settings, there is no equivalent focus on university staff.

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HEPI

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Adam Lindgreen, Professor of Marketing at the Copenhagen Business School and Extraordinary Professor with the Gordon Institute of Business Science at the University of Pretoria, C. We have also held different managerial positions within academia. Borland et al.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Simona Bizzozero, Chair, QS Reimagine Education Awards & Conference. Over a third of students surveyed said that AI influenced their choice of course, university, or career path. The QS report highlights that AI is shaping students’ academic and career decisions significantly.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 11, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Disposable City: Miami's Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza. Bryan Alexander's Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis is among the most anticipated books of the coming year. Published in July of 2020.

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HEPI

APRIL 23, 2024

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and outgoing President of the National Conference of University Professors. “ Pathways to professorship is more than a book… it should be on the shelves of every university library.”

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

HEPI is running a series of blogs on the changing faces of academia in collaboration with the British Academy. This post was kindly contributed by Chi Zhang, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. UK Universities and China , HEPI Report 132, 9 July 2020.

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Coursera blog

MAY 6, 2025

When New Jersey native Matthew Daiter enrolled in the University of Colorado Boulders online MS in Electrical Engineering program, he already had nearly a decade of real-world experience behind him. The post No Undergrad, No Problem How Matt Daiter Earned His CU Boulder MSEE Online appeared first on Coursera Blog.

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HEPI

JULY 18, 2024

This blog was kindly authored for HEPI by Annabelle Earps , Digital PR Manager at The Workplace Depot. From my experience undertaking a course at Cardiff University covering Journalism, Marketing, and PR , I found myself unprepared for the digital aspects of the industry.

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Higher Ed Ethics Watch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

I have previously blogged about the controversial issue of "Ethical Hacking." In this blog, I will update that discussion and add to it because changes are happening rapidly and the number of cybersecurity attacks are increasing. Many of these are being offered in the public sector within community colleges and universities.

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HEPI

JUNE 27, 2024

This HEPI blog was kindly written by Veronica Omeni, Principal Consultant at QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Chan, Head of Professional Development and Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong, advocates for mandatory work experiences for academics.

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SRHE

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

For instance, institutional autonomy and academic freedom are widely acknowledged as essential for the optimization of university operations in most African nations. Universities offer the necessary space for the exercise of academic freedom, and thus, institutional autonomy is necessary for its preservation.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 8, 2023

Blog: Learning Innovation In a recent Bloomberg column, Tyler Cowen offers his diagnosis of what ails higher education. As important discoveries in CS or engineering are likely to come from companies rather than universities, higher education may be in danger of losing its recognized role as the engine of knowledge creation.

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ACRLog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This time of year, at my university, and perhaps at yours as well, we are preparing to submit documentation for our annual performance reviews. There is one name at the top of the CV, the exam, the LibInsights report, this blog post. Yet, on both theoretical and practical levels, the work we do is inherently collaborative.

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Dr. Simon Paul Atkinson

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Press coverage of recent cryptocurrency disruptions and the significant staff reductions at Twitter and Meta is giving pause for thought amongst investors and futurists, as well as university leaders considering the future of the Metaverse. Whether this gaming trend will fruitfully spill over into academia, I am doubtful.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 14, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation Much of the conversation swirling around academia this summer is about leaving academia. ” What might be the conditions that encourage and enable us to remain in academia for decades and decades? Growing up, I never heard my dad talk about university and department politics.

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SRHE

MAY 8, 2025

by Estefania Gamarra, Marion Heron, Lewis Baker and Harriet Tenenbaum Do you remember when you started university, and you were expected to use a whole new language? We have drawn on the pedagogy and research from compulsory school education, namely the work of scholars at Cambridge University. What do we mean by language here?

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SRHE

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Two notable exceptions, both in the US context, are Peter Magolda’s (2016) ethnography of cleaners on two university campuses, The Lives of Campus Custodians , and Verónica Caridad Rabelo and Ramaswami Mahalingam’s ( 2019 ) article, reporting on a mixed-method study of cleaners conducted in a single institution. She blogs here.

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Academe Blog

APRIL 18, 2025

After a traumatic brain injury, PTSD, and mobility issues, she returned to academia with her service dog, Sampson. She receives inquiries from students and faculty across the globe and regularly gives talks to universities about navigating accessibility in research environments. Lab environments were deemed too hazardous.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 20, 2023

Blog: University of Venus Burnout has been the focus of much of my work life for the last five years—first experiencing it as a tenured faculty member, then writing about it as a researcher and memoirist, and now coaching about and facilitating workshops on it as well as burnout resilience for faculty across the country.

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HEPI

MAY 1, 2023

These ideas have been naïvely imported into academia where individual performance, especially regarding research, is assessed by means of volume and metrics. Also, unlike sales, recruitment or production, numbers can be gamed, and it is glaringly obvious in some sectors of academia and in some countries in Europe that this happens.

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Academe Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

By HANK KALET There has been a strike wave across academia that is altering the landscape for those of us who teach and work in higher education — and Rutgers is poised to join the party. Strikes at The New School, the University of California system, the University of Illinois Chicago, and threats by faculty,…

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Blog: Learning Innovation The best recent show about academia over the past few years is not The Chair , although it was pretty good. The show you want to watch if you want to understand how a university actually works is HBO’s thinly veiled academic drama, House of the Dragon. What are you watching?

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