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By Eliza.Compton, 15 April, 2024
University faculty need public-speaking skills when they seek to engage students, collaborate with colleagues, secure funding and further their careers. Patty Raun leverages her skills as a stage actor to help higher education professionals improve their presentation chops
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 12 April, 2024
Amid a growing awareness that humanities students and faculty need data literacy, Rishi Jaitly, a longstanding champion of the humanities in technology, explains why data and technology leaders also need an education in the liberal arts
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4minutes
By Eliza.Compton, 28 March, 2024
Experts demystify what open access and open research are, tips for best practice, and where the movement and research culture are heading
By Eliza.Compton, 20 March, 2024
Making data open access has become a cornerstone of transparent and collaborative research practices. Here, Jon Petters provides a brief guide on how to do it, emphasising accessibility, reproducibility and interoperability
By kiera.obrien, 19 March, 2024
In this existential moment for higher education, the corporate university is not the only end point possible – we can imagine so much more. David J. Staley offers 10 new ways of thinking about universities, in this excerpt from his book ‘Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education’
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4minutes