I enjoyed a really useful and interesting day out at our Assessment Symposium on Tuesday – well worth the cross-border trek to substitute for our Austria-stranded childminder. It was organised to support the production of our new effective practice publication on technology-enhanced assessment, but was a great opportunity to explore many of the issues with […]
We are looking for people with an institutional role in supporting and developing ‘digital’ learners, which might mean working in learning development, information literacy, e-learning, ICT support, personal development planning, career planning, developing ‘literacies of the digital’, institutional strategic planning, and developing a 21st century curriculum in your subject area. We would like to invite […]
JISC has commissioned Stamp Consulting to objectively evaluate the effectiveness and impact of a range of communication activities funded by the JISC e-Learning Programme between 2004 and 2009. Activities to be evaluated include printed publications (for example, the JISC Effective Practice guides), multimedia resources, workshops and online conferences. Findings from the evaluation will inform the […]
Conference presentations and resources, including all the Elluminate recordings, from Innovating e-Learning 2009 (#jiscel09), are now available on the JISC website for general viewing: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference09/programme.aspx or http://tinyurl.com/yeftze5 The JISC Online Conference, Innovating e-Learning 2009 ran from 24th -27th November and attracted 450 delegates numbers from 12 countries. The conference theme was ‘Thriving, not just surviving’ […]
Author of the Demos report, The Edgeless University, Peter Bradwell opened the second theme of Innovating e-Learning 2009 with a warning note for higher education. Universities are facing ‘a perfect storm’ of rising demand and strained resources, but Bradwell saw a solution in embracing what technology can offer. An explosion of free online resources and […]
The JISC Online Conference, Innovating e-Learning 2009 which opened on Tuesday 24th November has broken all records for delegate numbers. 12 countries are represented with delegates from Australia adding to the discussions overnight UK time. Follow the conference live on Twitter #jiscel09 The opening keynote by Charlie Leadbeater, leading thinker on innovation and strategy, was […]
Join Graham Attwell, Martin Weller (The Open University) and Rob Howe (University of Northampton), session facilitator, John Traxler, and other delegates in this year’s JISC online conference, Innovating e-Learning 2009 to debate the future of education on the 24th November. As part of the pre-conference buzz, Martin Weller has produced a short video interviewing his […]
On Tuesday the OER programme held its interim programme meeting in London – details of the full agenda and copies of the presentations are available on the JISC website here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer/progmtgoct09.aspx. Of the three parallel morning sessions, I attended the Internationalisation session and these are my notes for this – if you are interested in […]
This is only my personal reflections of this symposium which was held on 8 Sept at ALT-C 2009. I have almost certainly missed things, but if I have missed things this is only due to my failings and not due to any deliberate intention to do so. The symposium was chaired by Oleg Liber (Director […]
The JISC e-Learning Programme will be launching three new publications at the ALT-C Conference in Manchester on Tuesday 8th September. Managing Curriculum Change A new publication, Managing Curriculum Change, introduces two major JISC programmes of research commencing in 2008 that investigate how the use of technology can help make curriculum design processes more agile and […]