On 2 and 3 March, Jisc held yet another highly innovative and engaging Digifest event. I felt a great buzz and hive of activity throughout the two days, encapsulated by enriching presentations and content, but not forgetting the robots! My role this year was to be on-hand to provide social media coverage for sessions throughout …
Posted on behalf of Rebecca Rochon, Senior Lecturer in Education, Buckinghamshire New University: Whether you call it partnership or it’s just the way your organisation works, we know that the way students and staff work together is both changing and driving change. If your organisation is involved in partnership activities, we invite you to complete …
Last week at Jisc Digfest I gave a demonstration of the new Jisc Scaling up online learning guides and the Online Learning Readiness Tool* which received a lot of interest. It was a great opportunity to share the resources that have been developed over the last year as a result of feedback from the wider community …
The Journal of Educational Innovation, Partnership and Change has just published the third edition and is available to download in PDF, ePub and Kindle formats here. Editor Simon Walker from the University of Greenwich and Sarah Knight, Senior Co-design Manager, Jisc provide an introduction (The strategic importance of working together with our students), with a …
This week at Jisc DigiFest Heather Price will be demonstrating the new Scaling up online learning guides and the Online learning readiness tool. The three guides provide a comprehensive overview of what institutions need to consider when scaling up online or distance learning. The first guide Scaling up online learning helps you consider which model/s are appropriate …
(published on behalf of Alev Zahir) On Thursday 21st of January Jisc and LOOP collaborated on a unique event which explored: “The future of student feedback and the role of technology”. At the heart of the debate was how technology can support student feedback to improve quality in colleges and learning providers. The event was …
Following our highly successful event in Dundee last year, Jisc is again working with European colleagues EUNIS and SURF to organise the next EUNIS e-Learning Task Force workshop on Friday 15th April, at the University of Amsterdam. The workshop will explore how universities are addressing aspects of the new European Commission framework (A European Framework for Digitally-Competent Educational …
Posted on behalf of Callum Hutchinson – second year student at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC) Last year I took on the role of the Student Learning Technologist (SLT) for my cohort. The core task for myself and the other Technologists is to promote, encourage and support students at the RVC in the use of …
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to run a workshop at the NUS Course Reps’ conference exploring outcomes of the digital student work, and specifically looking at uses of the Jisc/NUS Digital Student Experience benchmarking tool. There was a huge turn-out at Goldsmiths’ College for the London leg of the conference. Like the …
We are delighted that 15 suppliers have so far responded to the Jisc and UCISA invitation to complete our EMA system requirements template. The template was designed to clarify the core requirements of UK He providers. The responses will help universities and colleges better understand the ways in which particular systems can support their needs …