Guest post by Dr Martin Oliver, Institute of Education There are many practical reasons why people might want to study online – convenience, flexibility and so on. But are there other benefits, too? The Institute of Education undertook a study for Pamoja Education , the only approved provider of online courses for the 16 to […]
Author: Helen Beetham
New materials online! At last we can announce the launch of our new, revised materials to support everyone working to enhance the student digital experience. There is a whole new area of the web site devoted to examples of good practice, of which there are more than fifty, generously shared by universities (and some colleges) […]
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UCISA digital capabilities survey
Happy new year! At last I have got around to a blog post about the outcomes of the 2014 UCISA survey on digital capabilities (this link is to the Executive Summary report – full report in a few weeks’ time). Publication of the exec sum was accompanied by a webinar in December which looked at […]
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Some relevant national reports
Since we reported on the HE findings from our Digital Student work, several reports have been published that shed light on aspects of students’ digital experiences. This is a brief round-up and commentary (views expressed are my own). The HEA’s UK Engagement Survey (UKES) aims to help institutions understand and improve students’ personal engagement with […]
Now that we’ve completed our consultation with HE stakeholders, it’s time to ask what you are doing to enhance the student digital experience. There are no prizes but we’ll make sure everyone gets a mention here on the digital student blog, and some will be selected for a full write-up and promotion by Jisc as […]
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After ALT
More than 50 people attended our workshop at the ALT conference, following an equally healthy turnout for Dave’s paper on the expectations of incoming school students. We introduced some findings from the HE study and asked participants to respond to five postcards from the future, outlining how student expectations and needs might change. You can […]
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ALT Conference is here!
There are two Digital Student related sessions happening at the ALT (Association for Learning Technology) conference in Warwick this week. On Tuesday at 11.35 in room 0.13 Dave White will be presenting outcomes of the schools report: Where did they get that idea from? Incoming expectations of the digital environment. Expect some provocative observations on […]
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Digital Student videos here!
Back in june we did a session for the Jisc Learning and Teaching Experts’ meeting where we presented an update on the HE study outcomes and on the consultation process. We also asked members to help shape and prioritise our recommendations for institutions. Although things have moved on a bit in the consultation process since […]
We always planned for this final event to be something of an editorial meeting, with people who have joined us along the journey helping to shape our final messages for the sector. In fact it was more of a design meeting, as the twitter stream and photographic evidence both show. Pipecleaners, bobbles, directional arrows and […]
The Academic Practice with Technology conference in Greenwich (8 July) was our last ‘specialist’ consultation event. Issues that came up in the twitter stream for the conference show just how relevant our work is to current practitioners: bring/build your own, the need to prepare students to study with technology, integration at the level of services, […]