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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
The rise of open access publishing has democratised knowledge dissemination, allowing researchers to share their findings with a global audience. Here, Corinne Guimont offers insights on running OA journals at a higher education institution
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4minutes
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