Embedding the Culture of Engagement

We are delighted to announce the publication of the 5th edition of the Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change: Vol 3, No 2 (2017): Embedding the Culture of Engagement. This edition brings together practice which was presented at the CAN 2016 conference held at the University of Lincoln and showcases the innovative practice in …

CAN 2018: Championing student-staff partnership in an age of change: Call for Contributions

We are delighted to announce the call for contributions for CAN 2018 hosted by the University of Winchester and supported by Jisc. This year the CAN conference will be focusing on student-staff partnerships at universities and colleges in the age of change. With significant developments happening across the UK educational landscape, the conference themes ask …

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Engaging students in the tracker

This post is guest authored by Tabetha and Mike from the tracker team. We thought you might like to see the faces behind tracker.support@jisc.ac.uk. Not only are they keeping the project on the road, they also take time out to think about the bigger issues such as student engagement.           We …

Assessing Your Readiness for Implementation of Learning Analytics: Making a Start

This is a guest post by Lindsay Pineda and Patrick Lynch. Their bios are at the end of the article. As an institution, you may find yourself asking, “How do I know if we are ready for learning analytics? Is there a way to ‘feel out’ where we are before having someone come onsite for …

CAN 2018 – Save the dates – 19 & 20 April 2018

CAN 2018: Championing student-staff partnership in an age of change, will take place on 19- 20 April 2018 at the University of Winchester.  To keep up to date, please keep your eye on the linked page on this blog.

REACT project’s Special Issue of the Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change

We are delighted to announce the launch of the special issue of the Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change: Vol 3, No 1 (2017): Reacting to the ‘Hard to Reach’ through Student Engagement Initiatives. This special issue of The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change is slightly different from previous issues in that …

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#disruptconCU18 Conferences and Events Events

Something submitted, to something different — #disruptconCU18

In September a call for submissions appeared on the SEDA list that was a little different. To quote Kieran Fenby-Hulse The Doctoral College and Centre for Research Capability and Development will be holding a one day Conference happening on Friday 19th January 2018. Our Call for Something is currently open and closes on 12th November. […]

Liability in the new Learning Analytics Service Agreement

Some of you have been asking about the changes to liability in the new Service Agreement, so I thought it was worth a blog post to highlight the main factors we had to bear in mind. The new Service Agreement for Institutions marks the transition of Learning Analytics from a relatively small-scale R&D project to …

Learning Analytics Purchasing Service

From the outset of the Jisc Learning Analytics project we were aware that institutions were likely to have requirements that went beyond what Jisc could offer. With this in mind we developed an architecture and service structure so that complementary services from other suppliers could easily be added on top of the services provided by …

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What drives student satisfaction with their digital experience?

In reviewing the data from two major Tracker pilots, and other work done by the Digital Student projects, we have developed a deeper understanding of the elements of the student digital experience. We know that it centres on the course of study. Confident teaching staff, relevant learning activities, and up-to-date digital systems all contribute to …