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News from the first three learner focus groups: Skills Digital Student Study

Posted on behalf of Giles Pepler,Skills Study Project Manager, and NIck Jeans,Senior Consultant (Learning Technology): During the past week we have run the first three learner focus groups and these have been interesting, varied and challenging. We’ve discussed the issues with a group of child care learners – largely school leavers – at InTouch Care …

New Webinars for 2015-16

2 new Change Agents’ Network webinars are now confirmed for 24 November 2015 and 20 January 2016.  Full details (and shortly the link for registering) are on the Webinar page. 24 November 2015 – “What will a successful student-staff partnership look like in 2020?” Presentation, discussion and activities led by Peter Chatterton and Clare Killen. …

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Skills study planning well under way

Posted on behalf of Giles Pepler, Skills Study Project Manager Since the study commenced towards the end of July, there has been a very encouraging response from skills training, adult education providers and colleges in seeking to become involved – more than 30 expressions of interest which have greatly helped us start organising learner focus …

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Digital student

Skills study planning well under way

Posted on behalf of Giles Pepler, Skills Study Project Manager Since the study commenced towards the end of July, there has been a very encouraging response from skills training, adult education providers and colleges in seeking to become involved – more than 30 expressions of interest which have greatly helped us start organising learner focus …

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Digital student

Start from the beginning; a case for a digital ‘Learner Profile’ + a useful ‘Student Digital Experience Benchmarking’ tool for FE (and HE)

I was fortunate to be part of the FE Digital Student project , one of four in the larger Jisc study investigating students’ expectations of the digital environment. One of the clear messages we heard during focus groups held for the FE study was that learners wanted access to help to improve their use of …

Third Change Agents’ Network case study: University of Nottingham

On behalf of Clare Killen: The third Change Agents’ Network case study is now available under the resources menu above.   ‘How students are making a difference – Students as Change Agents scheme’ was introduced during the 2014-5 academic year to increase levels of student engagement and empower students to make a difference to teaching and …

Highlights from a new student (staff) group London Digital Student Meet-up (LDSM) co-organised by LSE and UCL

Guest post by Moira Wright, Digital Literacy Officer,E-Learning Environments, UCL Digital literacy: student (staff) partnership working Highlights from a new student (staff) group London Digital Student Meet-up (LDSM) co-organised by LSE and UCL it aimed to provide a platform for student networking. LDSM is open to all students working on digital literacy and student engagement …

Updating the Jisc Student Partnership Toolkit – message from Clare Killen

Peter Chatterton and I are working with colleagues at Jisc to update the Student partnership toolkit to reflect current practice in student partnership initiatives which involve technology. The toolkit has been developed by the Jisc Change Agents’ Network. As part of the review process we would like to hear from anyone who has used any …

Recording, presentation and chat now available from the CAN webinar 13/5

Please go to the Webinar page to see the recording and presentations from today’s webinar.

Registration for 13 May (12:30-1:30) webinar now open

Please join us on 13 May at 12:30 for the next webinar, with presentations by Deborah Millar, Head of eLearning, Blackburn College, on ‘DigiPals – Changing the Learning Landscape project’ followed by Peter Chatterton and Clare Killen’s overview of the Jisc Student Engagement Toolkit, a valuable resource for those working in the field. To register: …