Achievements of the Change Agents’ Network

I’ve been in a rather fortunate position having been commissioned to undertake an evaluation of the Change Agents’ Network (CAN) by the Advisory Group, looking back over the last three years of its operation and helping to inform its future. I’d like to focus this blog post on key achievements and the best way to …

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Digital student

Skills sector project: Five more learner focus groups and some preliminary thoughts from these

Posted on behalf of Giles Pepler,Skills Study Project Manager, and NIck Jeans,Senior Consultant (Learning Technology): In the run up to Christmas we ran five further learner focus groups: three in ACL and two at private training providers. The ACL learners included a large and lively group at Carmarthen and smaller groups in Leicester and Derby, …

FE case studies: Staff-student partnerships

Case studies from our Jisc FE Digital Student project on how students are working with staff to develop the student digital experience are now on the Resources page of the blog, in addition to the 4 CAN case studies .  It’s inspiring to see how much good work is being done by individual institutions.  

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Electronic management of assessment

UK HE system requirements: invitation to suppliers to respond

Jisc and UCISA have been working with universities to develop a statement of requirements to help suppliers understand the needs of UK higher education in relation to the electronic management of assessment (EMA). We have created a template for suppliers to respond to those requirements to help universities better understand the ways in which particular […]

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Culture

Another end of year ed-tech predictions post ;-)

Well here we are at the end of the year, if you’re anything like me then it is indeed the season to be jolly. However, if you’re one of the many thought-leaders out there on the internet then you’ve probably been looking forward to this point in the year for a while and have been […]

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Digital student

Invitation to Jisc Digital Student – Skills sector consultation events

Registration is now open to those who would like to take part in one of a series of national consultation events being run as part of our Digital student: Skills sector study from February to April 2016.  Jisc will cover staff and learners’ travel expenses for their attendance at these events. This project is exploring …

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Digital student

Digital Student Data Service moves into beta pilot phase

Following an informative and successful small scale user testing with staff and students, the Digital Student Data service has received the go ahead to move forward with its developments. The project will be carrying out a beta phase in the new year with a small set of institutional pilots across further and higher education. Background: …

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Benchmarking Best practice digital experience Digital student Employability Learner expectations

Engaging learners in active dialogue around their digital expectations and experiences

From the work we have carried out over the past 3 years with Helen Beetham, Dave White, Rhona Sharpe, Liz Browne and Ellen Lessner, under the Digital Student project and the Change agents’ network, the development of the student digital experience is complex and should be informed by learners’ expectations and experiences of technology. Learners …

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Electronic management of assessment

EMA in HE: system specification for comment

This is a draft version of content for a new Jisc guide on EMA processes and systems that will complement the existing guide. Here on the blog we have split the two to help readability.  This post should be viewed in conjunction with that on processes. The drafts will be open for feedback to help us improve the guide until […]

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Electronic management of assessment

EMA in HE: processes draft for comment

This is a draft version of content for a new Jisc guide on EMA processes and systems that will complement the existing guide. Here on the blog we have split the two to help readability. The drafts will be open for feedback to help us improve the guide until 5th Jan 2016, so please do share your thoughts using the […]