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Coventry (UK), August 2024 - Coventry University is helping to reshape students’ learning experience through a global consortium. The consortium is at the heart of implementing collaborative online international learning (COIL) in diverse higher education institutions.

Toronto, (CA), July 2024 - D2L, a global learning technology company, has introduced the D2L Accessibility Bundle, a partnership package to help expand the D2L Brightspace education ecosystem and better support the needs of users with diverse abilities.

Leeds (UK), July 2024 - (by Patricia Quinn, Digital Practice Adviser) How can we modernise and improve assessment and make it more authentic in an increasingly online world of higher education? Students are being asked to complete multiple assessments in their programmes of study, the traditional formats and number of which have not changed for many years, as mentioned by Nerantzi in her article "Rethinking volume, variety and value of assessment in the era of GenAI".

Frankfurt (GER), June 2024 - The new Center for Critical Computational Studies (C3S) at Goethe University Frankfurt conducts research into the interrelationships between digitality and democracy and the dynamics of change. At a recent event entitled "Planetary Hopes", the Center presented its "Earth-Nature-Society" research focus. The key question discussed by the Frankfurt-based scientists and their guests was whether and how computational and data-based methods can contribute to coping with planetary polycrises.