I was very fortunate to attend the recent QAA Quality Matters Conference in Birmingham. This is an annual conference which QAA run for student representatives and supports their engagement with the quality enhancement agenda and student engagement. Anthony McClaran in his introduction in the conference programme says, ‘It is vital that students have the right […]
Data collection for the FE Digital Student project kicked off in September. The desk study looking at published material relevant to understanding FE students’ expectations of their digital learning environment is now well underway. The team are looking at both openly available research and policy documents and internal documents that institutions have made available to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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’re pleased to be able to announce dates and locations for FE staff consultation events for the Digital Student FE & Skills study. Please add the relevant date(s) to your diary. Jisc will open bookings for these events later in the year. 15 Jan 2015 Birmingham 20 Jan 2015 Manchester 25 Feb 2015 Bristol 04 […]
Thank you to the many FE Colleges who registered expressions of interest in participating in the FE & Skills study. We had a terrific response and have closed the EOI form now. It’s great to see so much interest in contributing to developing policies and processes in the FE & Skills sector for supporting students […]
Dear colleagues We have had a pleasing number of expressions of interest from FE Colleges in participating in the FE Digital Student study. We will soon announce participating institutions. In the meantime there is still time to register your interest in joining the study. We would especially appreciate hearing from more Welsh institutions. Register your […]
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, […]