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Storytelling in learning: humanising the digital

TL;DR summary – loads of people turned up to our digital storytelling community activity at Digifest last week. This made me realise something important about humanising learning in a world that is being increasingly automated. Our storytelling c…

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What can we learn from the ALT/ Jisc XR community at Digifest 2025?

Despite the lunchtime slot, it was a solid turnout for the extended reality (XR) community meet up at Digifest, reflecting the growing interest and engagement in XR within the sector.
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Early findings from the digital sustainability interviews

Scott shares the early findings from the interviews with members for the Jisc project ‘Embedding digital sustainability into teaching and learning.’ The key themes so far are discussed, including the challenges as well as good practice and useful resou…

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Collaborating on Jisc’s introduction to digital sustainability e-learning module 

Digital Sustainability Specialist Cal Innes shares insights into the collaborative process behind developing Jisc’s Introduction to Digital Sustainability e-learning module, emphasising teamwork, feedback, and iterative design.
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What does it mean to be data literate?

Defining data literacy “It’s about knowing how to use and communicate data.” “Data literacy is key to informing strategic planning.” These were just a couple of the responses from our recent data literacy workshop. Other examples included “using tables…

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Improving focus with the Pomodoro technique

Your Teams account pings with a new notification. A meeting invite pop-up screams for attention. A fresh email arrives. Social media needs checking—the demands on your time from digital can be a huge distraction. As much as we all can’t do withou…

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Meta educators community summit – an update from the ALT/ Jisc XR community

On the evening of Sunday 10th and all day Monday 11th November, Meta hosted an educators summit in London focused on XR in education, bringing together around 100 attendees primarily from UK but also including some European institutions. From the Jisc …

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Changing places

Reflections from workshops with staff from FE colleges in Wales, looking at how their physical learning spaces are changing, and might change in the future.
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Emerging themes from the digital wellbeing community

Scott reflects on the emerging themes raised at the Welsh Digital Wellbeing community of practice. A description of the rose, thorn, and bud method is described to capture the feedback from participants.
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Creating safe spaces and belonging with AI communities in Wales 

Reflections of the first year of the Wales AI working group from the co chairs and Jisc.
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