Education, digital, change and transformation
Prologue So, I’m going to be 60, or if you’re reading this I am 60. It doesn’t feel momentous, I’m not even sure it should be. When I was growing up it did. I was the youngest child of parents who had me much later than most of their peers. So when I hit 20,…
Read moreIn June 2009 the ‘52group’ gathered from across the Higher Education sector to consider the confluence of education and the digital. The result was a position paper entitled ‘Preparing for the postdigital era’. At the time the paper was largely met with a mixture of skepticism and confusion, a common response being “The digital hasn’t…
Read moreI was recently invited to a world café style event hosted by the Staff Development Forum http://sdf.ac.uk/groups/north-east-yorkshire-staff-development-forum.html around issues arising from mentoring and coaching. The event was excellent, with lots of tips being shared and lots of good practice emerging. There were different elements being showcased but I focused on elements that reflected technology practice,…
Read moreThere has been a lot written in the press about the impact of technology, and senior managers in institutions are being bombarded with adverts for workshops and events that offer “space and time for leaders to gain insight into the digital revolution”. In reality many institutions are already prepared, and capable of meeting their technology…
Read moreJisc are initiating a small development project to provide the sector with a web-based tool that will aid students in understanding and budgeting their finances whilst studying. This post represents initial consultation to begin the scoping work. Following comments and other feedback we will begin a more structured consultation before designing a tool and testing…
Read moreI’ve been working on behalf of Jisc in partnership with a group of other organisations, Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, Association for Learning Technology, National Union of Students and the Higher Education Academy. Part of the model we’ve been using is reliant on acting as consultants to a variety of higher education institutions. Each of…
Read moreI hadn’t gotten excited about 3D printing. It’s great, love the idea, understand how artists can use it, or engineers can build prototypes etc, but I hadn’t got that excited. That changed for me when I met a project in which Jisc is a partner from the British Geological Society at the Jisc Digifest in…
Read moreJisc have been working in collaboration with key partners in the Higher Education sector to support the technology enhanced learning aspirations of a variety of institutions through a HEFCE funded initiative – Changing the Learning Landscape. The model of support is based on conversations with key staff in institutions and followed up with targeted interventions.…
Read moreHaving had conversations across lots of universities and colleges this is a reflection on some of the things that students have been saying about their Technology Enhanced Learning Experiences.
Read moreJisc has been going through changes; new staff, structures and ways of working have all had an impact on the way we feel and behave. It’s been really easy to feel negative about some changes. For me personally the sense of losing the team that we have, Organisations and User Technologies, even though we were…
Read moreThis blog post supports the presentation at Imperial College, 14th November 2013. The conference is organised by Panopto, a software company that provides lecture recording. I agreed to speak about some of the things that we have elicited from working with students in the Changing Learning Landscape Programme, the Visitor and Residents project and the…
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