What’s featured in this episode? 

• Loughborough University topped the The Times Higher Education student satisfaction survey in 2016, at a time time when education in the East Midlands has received a grilling by Sir Michael Wilshaw. This episode features: 
• Getting the user-experience right for students 
• How universities can learn from the challenges in the content publishing sector 
• Reclaiming the word ‘library’ as learning spaces evolve 
• 24/7 learning accessibility vs. work/life balance 
• Academic investment in light of free resources like Google Scholar 
• How social media is used in the entire research process and what this means for peer-review 
• Loughborough’s new campus in London

Tags:

UX, Times Higher Education, Students, University, Higher Education, Library, Learning Spaces, Academia, Academics, Google Scholar, LTHEchat, ALT, Peer-review, VLE, Virtual Learning Environments, Start-ups, Content Publishing, Ethnography

Reading and resources: 

http://www.lboro.ac.uk

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/student-experience-survey-2016-results 

http://uki.blackboard.com

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofsted-issues-warning-about-education-in-the-east-midlands 

https://scholar.google.co.uk

http://davecormier.com/edblog/