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Technology in prisons; untapped potential?

Posted on behalf of Nick Jeans, Senior Consultant (Learning Technology) at Sero. Our learner focus groups have concluded with a couple of visits to prisons, which have been particularly interesting. Shotts prison near Glasgow is a Category A, high security establishment, while Channings Wood in Devon is a Category C: not remotely open but perhaps …

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Guest post: Academic boredom and learning analytics

In this guest post, John G. Sharp, Professor of Education at Leeds Beckett University, examines the issue of academic boredom among university students, and questions whether learning analytics could help to address it. ‘It’s not that I get bored a lot, I just lose my concentration.’ John G. Sharp Academic boredom is common among students at university.  Most …

Jisc Learning Analytics Architecture – Vendor Event, 21st April 2016 – Agenda

We now have representatives from 27 different commercial organisations registered to attend this session. Jisc Learning Analytics Architecture – Vendor Event 12:00 – 16:00, Thurs 21st April 2016 Brettenham House, 5 Lancaster Place, London, WC2E 7EN Location information: https://www.jisc.ac.uk/contact  Agenda 12:00 – 13:00   Arrival, lunch and networking 13:00 – 13:45 Introduction to the Effective Learning …

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Open practice? Reflections from the towpath.

This is a story about open practice, that I have told before, but is worth telling again. Not least because you can take from it what you will and add what layers and meanings you need to. This is what I have taken, 5 years later, from it. May 2011. I am on Holiday, I […]

Key MI systems in use in English colleges of further education.

Cloud services for FE project We’ve produced a report, which you may find useful, as part of the groundwork for the Cloud services for FE project. This once rejoiced under the name of “Jisc in a box” and also “Shared Services for MI R&D”, if you’re thinking that you haven’t heard of it before. The …

2 June Change Agents’ Network Meet up at the University of Lincoln – Flyer

Please download and share the flyer for the Meet Up which is available now by clicking on the image.

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Social Media Technology Enhanced Learning

Digital spaces in a networked culture?

Last week on twitter, and after a very long conversation with that Dave Cormier I posed the question “What would a learning space look like if you designed it in networked culture, where identity is more important than role?” I started thinking that the way to answer this may be by using scenario planning, designing […]

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Digital student

Review into online learners’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment

We are pleased to announce the next phase of this work as we begin a review into online learners’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment. The scope of the study is broad and will consider a wide range of online learners in HE, FE and the skills sector. The review will run from March …

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Digital student Tracker

Digital Experience Tracker pilot – why has it been so popular?

We had an overwhelming response to our call for universities and FE/skills providers to help pilot the Digital Experience Tracker – over 50 institutions completed the planning sheet and applied to take part. One outcome is that we have extended the number of institutions we are working with to more than twenty: 12 Universities, 10 …

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Coming soon: online learners’ expectations and experiences

We are about to link up with the Jisc Digital student project as they begin the next phase of their work. A team has been appointed to undertake a review into online learners’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment. Given the relevance of the Scaling up online learning project, we expect the work of the …