The scaling up online learning ideascale board has been busy over the last week and it now has 12 ideas on it which have received a total of 98 votes and 30 comments from 45 users – currently the top two are ‘Institutional Toolkit on new ways of conducting business’ and ‘Distance Learning Recipe Book/Handbook’ with a net total …
There is now an ideascale page for the project (http://scalinglearning.ideascale.com/) where anyone can comment on and vote on the ideas that are emerging to address the pain points of scaling up online learning within institutions. We’ve got 9 ideas on there so far (when I last checked anyway), with the ideas ‘Institutional Toolkit on new ways of …
Following the fantastic response for our call for interest in becoming a member of the scaling up online working group, I’m pleased to say the membership of this has now been finalised and includes a broad range of representatives across the community (see the members list here). The group have already been contributing their ideas to the …
Data collection for the FE Digital Student project kicked off in September. The desk study looking at published material relevant to understanding FE students’ expectations of their digital learning environment is now well underway. The team are looking at both openly available research and policy documents and internal documents that institutions have made available to …
A little while ago I had the pleasure of being part of a panel as part of a course for senior institutional managers looking at entrepreneurship, exploring the topic of ‘how can technology support employability’. This was an interesting question, as we have over the years explored this issue through a number of projects, but […]
What is the Jisc Change Agent Network? The Change Agent Network currently: Supports students working as change agents, digital pioneers,student fellows and students working in partnership with staff on technology related change projects Networks and connects staff and students in colleges and universities across the UK working on such projects Communicates, disseminates and influences the …
Last month we published a report which investigated incoming students’ expectations of the digital environment and how these were formed or influenced by school. The report can be found here. At the time I blogged about the study and report on the main Jisc website and then later on my own site under the title “Disconnected …
Thank you very much to those of you who have already voted and commented on the digital capability ideas. If you haven’t yet done so, I’d encourage you to have a look at the ideas at http://digitalcapability.ideascale.com/ before the end of the week. Here is a list of the ideas submitted so far, with the …
We’ve been discussing the digital capability challenge with a number of stakeholders over the summer: directors of library services, directors of IT services, heads of e-Learning, learning technologists, those working with college principals, staff on the ground supporting universities and colleges with digital literacy work, researchers, heads of staff development, and lecturers. We’ve discussed current …
Welcome to the scaling up online learning blog site. This is the place where you will be able to find updates and information on the project as it progresses. The first workshop took place in July (see the blog post about it here) and there will be more to come (watch this space!). As the …