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By miranda.prynne , 14 October, 2021

How does national culture affect the adoption of learning technology?

Research backed advice on managing different national cultures to encourage engagement with learning technology

Na Li, Xiaojun Zhang and Maria Limniou offer tips to counter the hidden cultural and social factors that reduce acceptance of virtual learning environments, based on their research

By dene.mullen , 14 October, 2021

So you want a novel way to support untapped research talent?

Universities should offer master's-level students the opportunity to gain research experience

There’s great scope for the sector to offer research development opportunities to taught postgraduate students, says John McKendrick

By miranda.prynne , 13 October, 2021

Using productive failure to activate deeper learning

Manu Kapur explains how using a flipped-classroom approach, setting students problems that they are unable to tackle properly until they have been taught the associated concepts, deepens their learning through ‘productive failure’

By dene.mullen , 13 October, 2021

Community colleges are the front line for workforce innovation

Community colleges are at the forefront of work-related study

As bachelor’s-granting institutions grow ever more focused on employability, there’s much they can learn from community colleges, say Vicki Karolewics and Bharani Rajakumar

By dene.mullen , 12 October, 2021

Now is the time to design a system in which all learning counts

Universities' conventional, top-down approach fails to recognise that working adults often already possess many critical work skills

Our conventional, top-down approach fails to recognise that working adults often already possess many critical work skills, say Lisa McIntyre-Hite and Mackenzie Jackson

By dene.mullen , 11 October, 2021

If peer feedback was good enough for the Brontë sisters, it’s good enough for us

Peer to peer feedback, as used by the Bronte Sisters, is a crucial tool for improving writing skills in university students

The shift online provides new ways to harness the power of peer feedback to improve writing skills, say Sherry Wynn Perdue, Pam Bromley, Mark Limbach and Jonathan Olshock

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By Eliza.Compton , 8 October, 2021