In my role as head of change for student experience at Jisc, ALT-C is one of conferences I look forward to the most each year. The conference offers a valuable opportunity to find out about current practice in universities and colleges, and to learn about some of the challenges associated with technology-enhanced learning. Each year, […]
Author: Sarah Knight
Universities and colleges are investing large sums of money on their digital environment both in terms of infrastructure, learning materials and supporting their staff with the development of their digital capabilities. But how do we know if the investment being made in these areas is impacting on our students’ digital experience? What do students’ expect […]
Our student digital experience tracker is well underway with many institutions having launched their surveys and are busy gathering students’ responses. With many colleges and universities designating February as ‘Digital February’ the month they will be promoting the tracker to their students, we thought it would be timely to offer an update on what we […]
Pilot of the Student/Learner digital experience tracker Following feedback on the Digital Student Data service from the consultation events to date, expert input, and intensive testing of the questions with learners from HE and FE, we are now ready to pilot a beta version of the digital experience tracker with a small number of universities, […]
Following an informative and successful small scale user testing with staff and students, the Digital Student Data service has received the go ahead to move forward with its developments. The project will be carrying out a beta phase in the new year with a small set of institutional pilots across further and higher education. Background: […]
Today I had the opportunity of facilitating 2 workshops at the Jisc Digital Leaders FE course in Bristol. Having attended the first half of this course a month ago, I was aware of the challenges and opportunities participants from FE and skills providers faced in developing their digital leadership skills and in turn influence the […]
On the 4th November 2015, we held a consultation meeting with staff and students representing 15 universities and 2 colleges, on the Jisc Student digital experience data service. This meeting builds on earlier consultations we have run, see previous blog post for further details. The outcomes from the meeting together with all the resources are […]
We are delighted to launch phase 3 of the Digital Student project which will be exploring skills learners’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment. The scope of the study covers work based learning (including apprenticeships), adult and community learning and offender learning – a broad canvas. The study will build on the approaches used […]
Following the consultation with representatives from further and higher education in April on the potential for a digital student data collection and analysis service, Livework have produced 7 different concepts on how Jisc could develop a service for institutions to gather and analyse student data, based on the outputs and ideas generated by the consultation […]
Our research and consultation with FE stakeholders identified a number of challenge areas around student’s digital experience (see below). We’re now looking for FE case study examples of how your college is addressing these challenges and want to hear from you! How to take part Taking part is easy and should only take around 30 […]