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Thirty providers already signed up to initiative, with another 30 interested in following suit

Introduction of lecture capture also leads to significant drop in attainment, King’s College London study finds

Experts in technology and education must work hand in hand if genuinely innovative teaching is to be delivered in the digital environment, says Simone Buitendijk

Santa Ono’s social media activity raises questions about when a tweet is an official university statement

National strategies also debate merits of basic versus applied research in rapidly expanding field

Academics complain of losing work on reference management tool

Arizona State to be first university adopter of new technology, launching fully online biology degrees

If his late-night photos of the senior common room Christmas party made it into wider circulation, John Brinnamoor would be a dead man

Embracing immersive content would aid public engagement and bring research and teaching closer together, argue Vincent Tong, Sam Smidt and Matilda Katan 

Struggle to engage effectively highlighted by study comparing Twitter use with other disciplines

University teachers are wrestling with the challenge of facilitating a new mode of online peer-to-peer learning, says Peter Kahn

The UK's first-ever Twitter-only teaching and learning conference shows academic symposia with international reach can be organised on a shoestring, say Natalie Lafferty and Pat Lockley

Emerging online threats and tough new penalties for data breaches are forcing universities to take cyber security more seriously than ever, says Kamal Bechkoum

Researchers who actively push their papers on social media gain more citations, study finds

Clarivate promises to ‘scale up’ Kopernio, which automatically detects researchers’ subscriptions and directs them to open access alternatives if necessary

As peak marking season approaches, Julianne Law gives a frank assessment of where her university’s new paperless marking system has gone right and what could be improved

There must be greater permeability between universities and tech giants if we want to protect data from corporate interests and use it for the public good

Psychologist Michal Kosinski’s work shows how digital footprints can predict a person’s sexual orientation, political views and more. Is it a danger or a warning about threats to privacy? John Morgan reports from California

Copyright policy would bar staff at University of Nottingham from objecting to edited versions of their own lectures, which could be used during a strike

US-based ARTiFACTS system is claimed to be first ‘fully functional’ blockchain-based system for recording research process

Minister says universities ‘will no longer be able to hide if their teaching quality is not up to the world-class standard that we expect’

Having well-resourced and world-leading university research is crucial if the UK is to succeed as a knowledge economy, says Michael Drew

New software to identify ghostwritten essays welcomed, but experts say it is not a panacea

Successful trials of a robot tutor should encourage universities to ask which roles can never be replaced by artificial intelligence, argues Robert MacIntosh

Alliances between institutions to become increasingly important, says Sheffield vice-chancellor

Imperial College London president predicts that higher education institutions will follow global corporations in screening applicants using AI-based algorithms

Universities must dramatically increase their levels of technical training to close the skills gap and deliver social justice, says Robert Halfon

The broad trends in AI may be unstoppable, but we must find better ways of directing and regulating them, argues Toronto’s Mark Kingwell

Candace Thille's move may reflect shift in focus of online learning initiatives

John Gilbey on a welcome guide to the thorny legal and ethical issues of a new technological era 

Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses

Technology behind Bitcoin is not just hype, say advocates, but could prevent data tampering and improve reproducibility

As part of a US initiative, undergraduates are given assignments to create articles, helping to develop critical appraisal skills

Martin Hamilton on four edtech trends to look out for over the next 12 months

Jack Chappell launched distributed denial of service attack against Janet service

It may be five years since Moocs went mainstream, but Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy believe they still have the potential to reach the hard-to-reach

Open University vice-chancellor claims that courses curated by technology giants might be more attractive than Russell Group’s offerings

Critics warn new 'Manuscript Writer' program may be too good to be true, since automated content could run the risk of plagiarism

Jisc has revealed its top social media superstars of the year, writes Chris Parr

ScholarlyHub will help academics keep control of their work and data, creators argue

Scholars are increasingly willing to use other people’s data in their research, writes Mark Hahnel 

Internet entrepreneurs will not rest until they have made physical universities obsolete, predicts Glyn Davis

Shift to lifelong learning opens up opportunities for ‘niche, digital’ providers, says Glyn Davis

Universities are very much at the forefront of efforts to extract the most value from artificial intelligence, writes Dame Wendy Hall

Accurate translation apps could have a ‘major impact’ on academia, some scholars believe, but others unconvinced

Tasmanian researchers find it takes 10 hours to plan an hour’s lecture for online students, compared to eight hours for on-campus delivery

Canada and Finland also score highly in research assessing the effectiveness of education systems in 35 economies

An academic parent, a student and two researchers consider if the metrics approach is really the game changer for improving student outcomes that many claim, or if it has a dark side

Eric Mazur, father of the ‘flipped classroom’, says rethinking assessment is the next frontier

Advocates say that the technology will cut out degree fraud – but could it actually help to fracture universities?

A survey of 50 laureates is full of insight, warnings and the can-do attitudes powering ‘beautiful minds’

Academics able to link their expertise to world events can raise their personal and institutional profiles to previously unimaginable levels, says Russell Reader

Digital humanities pioneer Gregory Crane argues academics are failing to fully utilise the new tools of scholarship

New Durham course explores how Christians can engage with online realm

Paul Feldman explains why the UK must be ready to embrace research collaborations on an increasingly international scale

Geoffrey Boulton writes the first in a series of articles from Jisc on research in the age of open science

Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant

Company accused of profiting from students’ intellectual property

US university leader explains how top teachers were selected to design a new multimillion-dollar teaching centre

Victoria Leonard on bringing equality to the world's largest reference tool