How to sustain a journal and beat the academic publishing racket
Starting a journal is hard enough – keeping it going is an ongoing challenge. Here’s how to maintain success in academic publishing
July 13, 2023
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Indigenous knowledge provides skills for lifelong learning that AI cannot
Indigenous ways of knowing can provide skills and strategies for learning that could assist educators in addressing the climate emergency, decolonisation and balance the outsourcing of knowledge to AI, Alexandra Sherlock writes
July 13, 2023 -
Recommendations for using design thinking in the classroom
How to prepare a design thinking workshop, from introducing the concept to students through to ideation and eventually pitching their idea
July 13, 2023 -
Grow your own accessibility allies
The steps to making learning content accessible include identifying areas that need attention, overcoming barriers and recruiting allies to get the job done, writes Luke Searle
July 12, 2023 -
Setting scenarios for a university adapted to climate change
In the second part of their series, Rob Wilby and Shona Smith explain how running institutional plans through different scenarios can help improve a university’s resilience to future challenges relating to climate change
July 12, 2023 -
A tale of two models: rethinking shared governance
Ryan Litsey and Jon McNaughtan discuss how the growth of faculty-turned-administrators has complicated the traditional view and execution of shared governance
July 12, 2023 -
Assessment tasks that minimise students’ motivation to cheat
Academic dishonesty occurs for reasons that include students’ fear of missing deadlines, being overwhelmed and lack of language skills. Here are ways to reframe assessment
July 11, 2023 -
An introduction to the global classroom: benefits, challenges and value added
Eric Tsui explains how to intensify internationalisation-at-home efforts, bringing many benefits to students and institutions alike, such as the sharing of transcultural knowledge
July 11, 2023 -
Written feedback for students – keep it clear, constructive and to the point
James Derounian offers tips for giving compassionate feedback that will enable students to understand where their work went right and wrong
July 11, 2023 -
Decolonisation as a driver for the Sustainable Development Goals
How decolonial approaches can underpin and drive work to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals across higher education
July 11, 2023 -
Decolonising interview methods: a call to look to the moon
The interview process often rests on colonial perceptions of what counts as knowledge, how knowledge is generated and who ‘owns’ it. But researchers can use orienting questions to reflect upon and decentre this approach
July 10, 2023 -
The top three ways to support international graduate employability
Building effective partnerships with employers and using feedback to shape curricula and careers services will boost outcomes for students, universities and industry alike
July 10, 2023 -
Want to know how your class is going? Ask your students
A guide to what, when and how to ask your students for feedback on your course in order to inform improvements to your teaching
July 10, 2023 -
Making an inclusive ‘unconference’
Many people in minority communities within our universities do not have enough opportunities to be platformed or validated, or to share their lived expertise within our institutions. An ‘unconference’ could cultivate these voices for positive impact
July 7, 2023 -
For diverse communities to thrive, we need intersectional policies and practices
Inna Stepaniuk offers suggestions on how to design an inclusive and equitable campus
July 7, 2023