The OSTRICH repository of Open Educational Resources (OERs) contains a range of learning and teaching materials that have been made available by the Universities of Bath and Derby as part of the OSTRICH project.
The research obsession is both self-reinforcing and self-destructive. The eroding state of science and science education in the US today is at least partly due to that misguided and harmful attitude in our universities. It has disfigured the humanities in
A report detailing the outcomes of the recent BMAF workshop 'Changing Universities through Internationalisation: from strategy to pedagogy'
The report was written by David Dowdeswell-Allaway, Director of Skills Development and Employability at Norwich B
To inform the work of the Online Learning Task Force (OLTF), HEFCE commissioned the Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning team at the University of Oxford to carry out a study of the current UK provision of higher education-level online distance learning
If any of the 70 undergraduates in Prof. Bill White's "Organizational Behavior" course here at Northwestern University are late for class, or not paying attention, he will know without having to scan the lecture hall.
Based on direct experience gained by the project partners with practical work on Identity Management in-house, this JISC-funded project has produced a Toolkit to support universities and colleges. The project had oversight and endorsement from UCISA, RUGI
This booklet illustrates how research and scholarship in the social sciences and humanities, nurtured and led by Britain's world-class universities, contribute to the cultural, social and economic health, wealth and reputation of the UK. It shows the publ
A University of Oxford academic is setting up an award to recognise misrepresentations of research in the press.
Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental neuropsychology at Oxford, announced the Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation on her
The difference between the University of Texas at San Antonio's Applied Engineering and Technology Library and other science-focused libraries is not that its on-site collection is also available electronically. It is that its on-site collection is only a
This seminar is part of the Academy's Evidence-based Practice Seminar Series 2010 and is offered by the Higher Education Academy and its Business, Management, Accountancy and Finance Subject Centre, and the University of Wales, Newport. The seminar was du
Academics cannot agree on what constitutes plagiarism, according to new research. A study by Diane Pecorari, senior lecturer in the School of Education at Malardalen University, Sweden, asked a sample of scholars to assess five plagiarised texts. It ident
Engineering Education is a peer-reviewed, international journal and is freely available via the website of the Engineering Subject Centre and distributed in paper format to all UK university libraries and Engineering departments. Two issues are published
Last week, twelve scholars came together at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to participate in the inaugural One Week, One Tool program. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, their mandate was to build some
Boston University has become the first major US higher education institution to post its academics' research online, bypassing the traditional route of publishing papers in peer-reviewed journals, which it said restricts public access.
Students campaigning to raise the status of teaching at a Scottish university have rewarded the institution's most inspiring lecturers at their own awards ceremony this week.
The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains almost 75,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery. WorldImages is accessible anywhere and