“Mission Employable” – students driving change in developing student employability at the University of Southampton

I read with fascination a case study recently published in the Change Agents’ Network Journal of educational innovation, partnership and change entitled ‘Mission Employable’: Creating a student-led employability strategy for the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton. The case study exemplifies an effective faculty-based approach to students driving change in pursuit of enhancing student employability …

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Electronic management of assessment

How many models of marking? Still counting …

he EMA Requirements Map working group is looking at common workflows. Discussions about how many models of marking exist have been going on for a while (see earlier post How many models of marking are there?). The key remaining question seems to be whether moderation of multiple markers’ work as opposed to moderation of a […]

Updating the Jisc Student Partnership Toolkit – message from Clare Killen

Peter Chatterton and I are working with colleagues at Jisc to update the Student partnership toolkit to reflect current practice in student partnership initiatives which involve technology. The toolkit has been developed by the Jisc Change Agents’ Network. As part of the review process we would like to hear from anyone who has used any …

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Digital student

Concepts for the digital student data service

Following the consultation with representatives from further and higher education in April on the potential for a digital student data collection and analysis service, Livework have produced 7 different concepts on how Jisc could develop a service for institutions to gather and analyse student data, based on the outputs and ideas generated by the consultation …

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Digital student

How are you enhancing your FE students’ digital experience?

Our research and consultation with FE stakeholders identified a number of challenge areas around student’s digital experience (see below). We’re now looking for FE case study examples of how your college is addressing these challenges and want to hear from you! How to take part Taking part is easy and should only take around 30 …

Recording, presentation and chat now available from the CAN webinar 13/5

Please go to the Webinar page to see the recording and presentations from today’s webinar.

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Electronic management of assessment

Assessment and Feedback institutional checklist

The toolkit working group will be looking at the usefulness of tools & checklists over the next few weeks so here’s an example just to get us thinking. Comments welcome Checklist for institutional Self-Assessment Strategy and policy Is your institution’s approach to assessment and feedback articulated in institutional strategy and, if so, at what level […]

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Challenges/Solutions Electronic management of assessment Product Features/Comparisons

A brief typology of feedback hubs

As part of the Jisc’s feedback hub feasibility project, I’ve started to look at systems that can present feedback in a holistic, programme wide way to learners and teachers. Having talked to the creators of a number of these hubs, there seem to be three broad types, which I’ll outline here. One of the outcomes […]

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Digital student FE and Skills FE digital student

Further Education project posts final report

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 …

Registration for 13 May (12:30-1:30) webinar now open

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: …