Archives: September 2010

An uncertain future: can technology help?

New politics, fragile economy, ageing student market, a society rapidly absorbing new technologies. Any one of these presents challenges to our sector, but together these form the complex reality of our working lives.

So what? How can we respond to these pressures? What’s going to help us cope? Better still, how can we succeed? Read more

Turning eyewitnesses into experts

It’s amazing how our collective memory of many events has been shaped by images taken by ordinary people – like mobile phone footage of political protests in oppressive regimes or tragic pictures of national disasters.

The exponential rise of social media has created a new landscape of interaction and collaboration where the boundaries between professional practice, citizen journalism, the subject and the audience are blurring. Read more

New JISC Blog launch

Welcome to the new JISC blog! Every week JISC’s people will be sharing their thoughts on a range of topics on technology, education, strategy and the issues that affect our sector – but that’s only half the conversation, so we … Read more

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