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apprenticeships Assessment and feedback Employability

Revisiting e-portfolio practices

Educational initiatives and technologies change, but the practices enabled by e-portfolio tools have, if anything, increasing relevance. In 2008 when we published our effective practice guide to e-portfolios, use of e-portfolio tools in UK universities and colleges was very much on the up, as is borne out by the UCISA TEL survey data which shows […]

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Digital capability

Autumn update

Now the summer holidays are over and the start of a new academic year is upon us, our thoughts are turning to new developments with the Jisc digital capability project over the coming months. ALT-C Firstly, for those of you attending ALT-C this week, the digital capabilities team will be running a workshop exploring organisational …

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Electronic management of assessment

New resources for FE and skills

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new guide on technology-enhanced assessment and feedback which has a focus on FE and skills. This new guide complements our existing suite of resources on technology in assessment and feedback, providing an up-to-date snapshot of practice across this diverse sector. The guide contains a rich variety of …

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Electronic management of assessment

Online resource now available ‘Transforming assessment and feedback with technology’

As you all know we’ve been working on the development of an online toolkit to bring together examples, guidance and resources to support universities and colleges with their use of technology for assessment and feedback. We’re pleased to say that the first element of that suite of resources is now available, the ‘Transforming assessment and […]

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Electronic management of assessment

Naming the ‘EMA toolkit’

We’re starting to think about a name for our EMA toolkit, which will be the home for many of the outputs of this project (see previous blog post ‘Solution development is underway‘). So, as a bit of August Bank Holiday fun, if you have any suggestions please do add them into the mix – we’ve […]

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Electronic management of assessment

Have your say!

At our workshop in December some of you worked with us to develop a range of solution ideas to tackle the prioritised challenges, which were refined down into five concept areas. At our second workshop in January more of you collaborated with suppliers to work up each of these further. We would now like to […]

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Digital literacies Employability

How can technology best support the development of employability skills?

A little while ago I had the pleasure of being part of a panel as part of a course for senior institutional managers looking at entrepreneurship, exploring the topic of ‘how can technology support employability’. This was an interesting question, as we have over the years explored this issue through a number of projects, but […]