Author: Helen Beetham

Considering how difficult it was to find our session on 2nd July (the 7th floor was only accessible by going up in one lift, down some stairs, across into another building, and up in another lift), we did well to attract more than 40 people. Or perhaps they did well to make it. Either way, […]

It was a fairly select band of participants that joined us at Glasgow Caledonian University for the North-of-the-Border leg of our consultation process. In fact, having rather less than 40 in the room allowed us to do more whole-group discussion, which I felt produced some consensual and well-focused outcomes. For a brilliant overview of the […]

The latest events in our consultation programme have thrown up a host of ideas, along with practical suggestions for how institutions can respond to the digital student agenda. I’ve already posted up the slides and outcomes from our whole-day event in London with AUDE, SCHOMS and UCISA members, and our morning session with HeLF members […]

Two new reports have been published recently by organisations that are involved in our consultation process. The Heads of eLearning Forum has published findings on policies, provision and support of tablet technologies. Among their findings – from a survey of 48 institutions – are: around 22% have a BYOD policy for staff slightly fewer – […]

There’s been a bit of a lull in activities since our webinar for ALT, but events are now starting to come thick and fast in our consultation series. Readers of the blog can catch up with us live in London, Leeds, Bristol or Glasgow in the coming weeks. Meanwhile I have had the opportunity of […]

The ELESIG network brings together people who research learners’ experiences – especially in digital settings – with people who can bring that evidence to bear on day-to-day practice in institutions. Both groups are engaged and engaging people, and it was obvious we should put our Digital Student outcomes in front of them. In the event, […]

Another excellent Horizon Scanning report projecting features of the higher education sector in 2020 and beyond – this time produced by the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education. It’s well worth reading in its entirety but of particular interest (once again) is the projection that while blended learning may well dominate provision, students are likely to […]

So many lovely consultable people turned out for our session at Digifest14 that some of them had to work standing up – we had run out of tables. Luckily there were enough pens and flipchart paper to go around. It was particularly nice to see from a show of hands that there were some students […]

We’re getting out our cheapest tent, waterproofing our wellies and packing plenty of loo roll as we take our digital student consultation gig to the Jisc Digital Festival. Join us in Hall 10b at the ICC in Birmingham on Weds 12 March to discuss how universities should respond to students’ changing needs and expectations. You […]

We’re just putting the finishing touches to our preparations for the first open consultation event in London (4th March at Browns’ Courtrooms). So here you can find: a digital student padlet to collate ideas for responding to students’ digital expectations and needs an edited collation of ideas from the Winchester event, being a speculative tour […]