Technology and new media

From acknowledging Covid stress to having every participant logged into Zoom, Paul Moss breaks down the art of mixed-cohort tutorials

Academics are well aware that jetting off to international conferences damages the climate, but for some, there is a much bigger source of emissions

Students who up their engagement later on struggle to catch the early starters, says study

Chemical engineers at Imperial College London have developed an innovative way of teaching real-world experiments at a distance, and say it also improves learning outcomes

Covid-19 has elevated the already considerable cyber risks universities face from without and within, Australian consultants warn

‘HyFlex’ learning and cutting-edge virtual reality techniques set to help students and staff bridge physical and language barriers

Survey from Association of Commonwealth Universities shows struggle that academics have in going digital compared with institutional leaders 

Panel stresses importance of ethics training for field that generates moral questions ‘on steroids’

The pivot to online learning during the coronavirus pandemic has shown why university educators should embrace artificial intelligence, says Y. J. Jang

With the Covid-19 pandemic likely to prolong the need for mass online learning for some time, we seek the experts’ advice on how to do it well – from designing courses and maintaining engagement to choosing applications and carrying out experiments remotely

Sustainable changes in digital learning will result from best practice alongside bold experimentation, say Friedrich Hesse, Volker Meyer-Guckel, Bitange Ndemo, Alexandros Papaspyridis, Rahim Rajan and Suzanne Walsh

Some data suggest institutions are devoting little to their defences and, as attacks become routine, experts say that open, decentralised universities are vulnerable

The virtual reality technology market is booming thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Jack Grove asks whether it might finally catch on in higher education

Commission recommends launch of Digital Service Academy to address shortage of talent in federal government

Liverpool chemists create AI-powered machine that works in standard laboratory and has already discovered a new catalyst

Student wariness may deliver final blow to crisis-weakened institutions

McGraw-Hill and Cengage abandon union after government demands heavy culling

Weekly broadcast from University of Toronto vice-president has captured the attention of thousands

After rejection of virtual peer review, federal agency halts new awards, prompting concerns for younger researchers

Graduates’ common lack of deep understanding about how AI works is hindering industry take-up, says Min Wanli

Continuing remote teaching in the autumn will be unsustainable for some institutions, warns leader of online college

Many universities have begun to teach online amid concerns that traditional classes could spread the coronavirus. Yale-NUS lecturer Catherine Shea Sanger explains how it can be done quickly and effectively

Universities in the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium have all suffered recent attacks, prompting calls for institutions to join forces

Brussels wants to create centre hosting ‘the best talents in the field’, but some researchers doubt that a single organisation can tackle all the challenges

Developing countries cannot cower from technological progress if they and all their citizens are to advance, argues Tshilidzi Marwala

Institutional, pedagogical and workload issues more problematic than technological impediments, experts say

Transition away from end-of-course exams may also increase staff workloads, says report

Data suggest the subject has one of the highest shares of students from other EU nations in UK universities

Joybrato Mukherjee says Chinese researchers ‘not always on the same page’ over IP – and looks forward to a VR-enabled ‘entirely virtual semester abroad’

Companies retreat for now, but see the technology’s spread as inevitable

Information collected from educational tools can be highly sensitive, and very valuable – triggering calls for learners to have more say in what happens to it

Latest Innovating Pedagogy report suggests way gamers learn from each other online could be adopted by universities

Study suggests that ‘predatory’ spam targeted specifically at scholars costs universities $1.1 billion annually

Marc Tessier-Lavigne discusses diversifying student intake and focusing on ethics of new technologies in Times Higher Education interview

Academics able to specify areas of interest to collect imagery of

Malaysian historian spies signs that liberal arts’ 200-year ebb may be ending as unpredictability of employment puts paid to utilitarian education

The dream of robot researchers is edging closer with automated laboratory producing five years of experiments in just two weeks, experts claim

Would-be scholars confronted with academics’ tweets could be forgiven for running for the hills, worries Scott Rich 

Industry and government alone cannot oversee new technology, experts say  

Caught up in a national anxiety about falling behind technologically, universities have recruited hundreds of new professors including data experts and digital humanities professors

Findings highlight need for ‘carefully considered’ use of platform as an educational tool

Academic experts amazed at the speed of development in AI that enables new technology delivering financial services

Researcher says experiment demonstrates that students mistake benefits of technology for increase in ‘internal ability’ to solve problems 

Sir Michael Brady believes generous scholarships and opportunity to create post-oil economy will prove attractive

Repository of research findings to help social scientists see ‘what we’re actually grappling with’

Investment will create 2,700 new PhD places in biosciences and AI research

There is a vast universe of information about people’s online behaviour. But academics say social media firms are restricting access to it, leaving us in the dark about the web

Tim Cook will chair the business school’s advisory board  

Canadian cooperative approach seen as a model for finding students looking to start careers in technology sector

Graduate institution to be led by former Oxford professor

Event in Russia will explore how universities can adapt to changes in technology

Social scientists argue a lack of access stops them and the public understanding online phenomena – but hope pressure from Brussels could change this

Imperial College London reports positive results from experiments in lectures and academic seminars

Less than one-third of institutions are utilising technology that could boost innovation and fundraising, report finds

Algorithms may simply lead to ‘self-fulfilling prophecies’ and do not give reasons for their decisions, Oxford researcher warns

Universities also warned that lack of diversity in AI is leading to missed opportunities to solve important problems

World Economic Forum economist Saadia Zahidi says campuses must prevent ‘hollowing-out of the middle class’ for sake of social stability

The futurist on her gutsy mum, why technology should liberate not control, and how graduates are turning their backs on Silicon Valley

Government also commits to regional education strategy and changes to free speech questionnaire

Students and academics who look at their phones during breaks may perform more poorly as a result, researchers say