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, […]
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Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to contribute to our investigation of Further Education learners’ expectations and experiences of their digital learning environment. The FE Digital Student project is part of the Jisc Digital Student study. The project is gathering evidence between July and December 2014. We want to analyse evidence of both […]
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Friends in the North
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 […]
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Launch of FE and Skills study
You will notice that there is now a new section to the web site, referencing the FE and Skills Study to parallel the HE study already undertaken into students’ digital experiences and expectations. This is our first post, starting the project. Check back often, as we’ll be posting news of progress here pretty regularly. The […]
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 – […]
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Changing the Learning Landscape?
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 […]
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ALTernative views?
On 1st of April we ran an ALT webinar in Blackboard Collaborate (recording here) as part of our consultation process. As with our other consultation events we reviewed the work of the project to date and then set our participants a number of difficult questions to engage with. Given that this event was online we […]
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Digital Student in Wales
I had the opportunity of taking the Digital Student consultation to Wales at the kind invitation of Lis Parcell from the Jisc Regional Support Centre in Wales. I ran a consultation session at the Higher Education Academy Future Directions Conference at Aberystwyth University on the 2nd April. The conference theme was, ‘ Global Graduates: Enabling […]
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Research questions from ELESIG
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, […]