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Improving focus with the Pomodoro technique

Your Teams account pings with a new notification. A meeting invite pop-up screams for attention. A fresh email arrives. Social media needs checking—the demands on your time from digital can be a huge distraction. As much as we all can’t do withou…

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New year, new low in accountability in public discourse

Well it’s new year, and I was going to blog about some of the thinking I’d done around Postdigital leadership (maybe later) but instead I […]

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Meta educators community summit – an update from the ALT/ Jisc XR community

On the evening of Sunday 10th and all day Monday 11th November, Meta hosted an educators summit in London focused on XR in education, bringing together around 100 attendees primarily from UK but also including some European institutions. From the Jisc …

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New BDC educational developer role profile

The building digital capabilities team at Jisc are delighted to launch a brand new role profile for educational developers with Staff and Educational Development Association (SEDA) mapping.  As always, the need for and development of the role profile came directly from collaboration with the sector.  What are role profiles?  Our role profiles have been developed […]

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Changing places

Reflections from workshops with staff from FE colleges in Wales, looking at how their physical learning spaces are changing, and might change in the future.
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Spotlight on Digital Poverty in Further Education: the top stats that should be driving your digital transformation in 2025

Digital poverty can be defined as “the inability to interact with the online world fully, when, where and how an individual needs to” (Digital Poverty Alliance). This includes consideration of devices, connectivity, access, capability, motivation and support, and participation.  The 2023/24 digital experience insights surveys shed light on the current state of learners using digital technologies, […]

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Spotlight on Digital Poverty in Higher Education: the top stats that should be driving your digital transformation in 2025

Digital poverty comes in many forms. Access to good tech and devices, support to use the technology, and the cost implication of this, all affect a student’s learning experience and their future career.  The 2023/24 digital experience insights surveys shed light on the current state of students’ learning using digital technologies but what can we […]

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Emerging themes from the digital wellbeing community

Scott reflects on the emerging themes raised at the Welsh Digital Wellbeing community of practice. A description of the rose, thorn, and bud method is described to capture the feedback from participants.
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The new wave of university localism

On the 4th November, the new Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, announced that the £9,250 per year headline university tuition fee will rise to £9,535 for standard full-time courses (also announced was a cut in the headline fees for foundation years, but that has excited much less comment). The fees changes come with […]

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Creating safe spaces and belonging with AI communities in Wales 

Reflections of the first year of the Wales AI working group from the co chairs and Jisc.
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