The Jisc Digital Student project has investigated the expectations and experiences of technology provision held by students coming into higher education, and also funded a small review of current practice within secondary schools. The further education and skills project ran between 1 June 2014 and 30 April 2015 in order to extend the findings of …
Please join us on 13 May at 12:30 for the next webinar, with presentations by Deborah Millar, Head of eLearning, Blackburn College, on ‘DigiPals – Changing the Learning Landscape project’ followed by Peter Chatterton and Clare Killen’s overview of the Jisc Student Engagement Toolkit, a valuable resource for those working in the field. To register: …
The programme for the workshop with European partners is now published and there are still some free places available. EUNIS E-Learning Task Force Workshop University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland, 9th June 2015, Events Area, Kydd Building Electronic Management of Assessment and Assessment Analytics The workshop will explore how technology can be used to enhance assessment and […]
On Wednesday 29th April, 30 participants from higher and further education, joined us in London for a workshop to explore whether Jisc could produce a prototype for a service to support the collection and analysis of data on student expectations, experiences, attitudes and satisfaction with digital technologies in their studies in UK higher and further …
Whilst preparing for today’s presentation to the Jisc Learning and teaching practice experts group, I realised that an overview of the barriers to scaling up online learning that workshop participants identified back in July hadn’t been shared on this project blog in any detail, so to remedy this I’ve listed them below (in no particular order): Lack of clear …
Following the progress update in February and the subsequent open call for tenders, I am delighted to announce that Lou McGill Consultancy has been appointed to undertake the development of the content for the Scaling up online learning Toolkit and that SkillSet Limited, working with Lou McGill, have been appointed to develop the diagnostic tool as …
As one of the potential solutions identified by the community to help enable institutions to expand their online course offerings, the Scaling up online learning project has been exploring the viability and usefulness of developing a directory of UK online courses. As a very first exploration of this, Michael Webb, Jisc’s Director of technology and analytics, has put …
First a potted history for those new to this blog – Jisc has been working with the community to: Identify EMA challenges that need to be tackled – see the EMA landscape report. Prioritise those challenges – see establishing priorities for action. Work up some possible solutions – see from challenges to solutions. Solicit community […]
The Change Agents’ Network third lunchtime webinar takes place on 27 April from 12:30-1:30. The webinars are designed to include opportunities for discussion and questions so please join us. This month, there are two presentations beginning with Paul Chapman, Head of Student Engagement at Birmingham City University who will speak on the theme of ‘Student …
Recent consultations by Jisc have highlighted the need for institutions to take a strategic approach to the digital capabilities of their staff. We hear from students – for example at the recent Change Agents Network event – that teachers who are confident with digital tools make a real difference to their learning. We know that …