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An academic's perception on the use of AI within academia and education

An academics perception on the use of AI in academic and education settings. How is the university landscape changing with the addition of AI assistance?

Oliver Back
February 2, 2024
8 min read

Study guide series: Reading techniques for academic literature

What are the differences between Skim reading, and Close reading, and how can Scholarcy help facilitate both?

Oliver Back
January 9, 2024
5 min read

Top Artificial Intelligence Podcasts

Since I began using Scholarcy, I have been researching the rise of AI technology and how it can change the way we learn. One of the most effective ways to stay updated on the latest AI developments, especially when balancing a full-time job or pursuing a degree, is by tuning into podcasts.

Jessica Rachid
October 20, 2023
5 min read

Challenges with unguided work at university

Students face a range of difficulties when transitioning from high school to university. Moving away from home and the stress of adjusting to a new environment are just two examples. One other major hurdle is tackling the course reading list. New terminology, advanced subjects, the sheer volume of writing - academic texts can be a daunting prospect!

Oliver Back
October 9, 2023
5 min read

Balancing Creativity and Theory: An Arts Student’s Story

In higher education, there is often a separation between creativity and academia. We recently caught up with Sophia Proffer, who is in her final year at Leeds Arts University, completing a BA (Hons) course in Fashion Branding with Communication, which includes both practical and theoretical modules.

Jessica Rachid
October 9, 2023
4 min read

Maximizing Efficiency: A Postgraduate Student’s Story

When it comes to postgraduate research, every resource that helps with systematic screening of the literature, identifying connections, gaps, and the potential for future work is worth its weight in gold. We recently caught up with an inspiring student, Omar Ng, who has undertaken a Master's in Instructional Design and Technology after 20 years away from academia. In addition to navigating the complexities of his Master’s program, Omar also has a demanding full-time job. Time is short, and the challenge of synthesizing vast amounts of information into meaningful insights looms large.

Emma Warren-Jones
August 15, 2023
6 min read

Best assistive technologies for college students

With digital-first learning becoming more established in colleges and universities, there’s also increased demand for assistive technology to support the growing number of students with a neurodiversity or physical disability. Assistive technology can unlock the learning potential of neurodivergent students in Higher Education helping them to focus, stay organised and grow in confidence. We’ve taken a look at some of the best digital assistive technologies available to college students today.

Emma Warren-Jones
January 17, 2023
10 min read

How universities are adapting to support neurodiverse students

Imagine a world where all individuals are free to use their strengths to learn, develop and create. This is a mission many universities are looking to embrace through the introduction of services, technology, and spaces designed to support students with a wide range of learning needs.It’s estimated that around 15-20% of the world’s population has a specific learning difference such as ADHD, autism, or dyslexia

Emma Warren-Jones
November 17, 2022
8 min read

Connecting the dots: knowledge graphs for all

There is a famous saying by the pioneering linguist John Rupert Firth, that ‘you shall know a word by the company it keeps’. Nothing exists in isolation – it’s not enough to know that a document mentions words such as love, poetry, or people such as Keats, Wordsworth, and places such as Paris. We want to know the context in which words and concepts are described and how these relate to their mentions in other documents.

Phil Gooch
July 27, 2022
8 min read

7 studying tips for non-native English speakers

For international students, the opportunity to study abroad in an English-speaking country is laden with advantages. Not only does it give students a chance to immerse themselves in another culture, but it gives them the opportunity to improve their confidence with the English language.It’s an option that appeals to many: in 2019-20 there were over 500,000 international students studying at UK universities alone – that’s over 20% of the total student population in the UK.

Emma Warren-Jones
April 26, 2022
7 min read

Four ways AI is making researchers of us all

For some time now, publishers and other distributors of academic research have been harnessing natural language processing (NLP) technology to get more of their content into the hands of the global academic community. Most research content and discovery services are building their own AI-driven solutions or licensing this technology to connect and expose more of their content for their readers in the following ways...

Emma Warren-Jones
November 25, 2021
9 min read

How eLearning has transformed the academic world

eLearning, short for electronic learning, is ‘the delivery of learning and training through digital resources’. (1) As a form of asynchronous learning, it can refer to anything from pre-recorded video lessons to activity-based animations.

Emma Warren-Jones
March 22, 2022
7 min read

How smartphones are changing the way we study

Mobile phones have come an incredibly long way in the last 30 years. In the 1990s, mobiles were used for making phone calls, sending texts, and playing the odd game of Snake. Today, smartphone technology allows us to browse the internet, stream films and run programmes, all from a small device in the palm of our hands.Smartphones are now ubiquitous. 99% of young people in the UK between the ages of 16 and 24 own a smartphone(1), which has led to a shift in the way we interact with content – and even each other.

Emma Warren-Jones
March 3, 2022
7 min read

Innovation, integration, collaboration: Scholarcy’s review of 2021

Today, Scholarcy is powering a range of products and services across the scholarly communication ecosystem, from metadata extraction to automated visual abstract creation. Discovery services are harnessing our knowledge extraction technology to enhance user experience, helping their readers screen the literature more efficiently and uncover important findings from research that they otherwise might have missed.

Emma Warren-Jones
December 20, 2021
4 min read

What we can learn from teaching methods around the world

While the positive impact of education on individual fulfilment and collective endeavour is universally acknowledged, opinion on the most effective style of education varies widely from country to country. There are lots of factors at play in education outcomes, many of which are influenced by the culture of a particular country. From embracing technology in the classroom to introducing later start times, we look at some of the different teaching methods practised across the globe – and ask what we can learn from them.

Emma Warren-Jones
December 8, 2021
9 min read

Can automated knowledge summaries aid scholarly communication?

The product and strategy team at Cactus Communications wanted to analyze the accuracy and comprehensiveness of Scholarcy’s Highlights and Keywords, in the context of the full article, to see how useful these features could be in promoting published work and increasing reader engagement with individual papers.

Emma Warren-Jones
April 15, 2020
7 min read