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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 […]

Unite and Universities Alliance have just published a report on Living and Learning in 2034 which is relevant to the Digital Student project. Based on a year-long programme of scenario building (university_vision), the report explores how students might live in four different scenarios that might come about over the next 20 years. As with a […]

A recent report from Kings College London and the QAA looks at student expectations and perceptions of higher education. Though there is no specific focus on digital aspects of the HE experience, there are still findings from the study which confirm and add detail to our Digital Student Study Findings (numbering is my own). 1. […]

   The Digital Student is a Jisc-funded project which is working with a number of partners (UCISA, SCONUL, RLUK and RUGIT)  to investigate the expectations incoming students have of technology provision in further and higher education. Here you can explore findings and recommendations from the phase 1 (HE) study: Students’ expectations and experiences of the […]

What sort of technologies do students coming into further and higher education expect their institutions to provide? Access to the institutional services and the whole of the Web via any number of devices. Comprehensive organisational information about their course (dates, times, locations, requirements). Access to information resources that will help them to complete assignments. These […]