Topic: Staff Development

How e-portfolios helped us to improve our college’s digital literacy

I am the learning zone and e-learning manager at Deeside College.  I work with an extremely dedicated group of people with a passion for taking the student forward and developing real world skills.  The students too are a wonderful group, … Read more

Wikipedia in universities and colleges?

Here at JISC we are lucky enough to have a view across the education sectors in teaching, learning and research. I’m delighted to be at the EduWiki Conference this week, which is run by the Wikimedia UK Foundation and brings … Read more

Blackboard’s new open source strategy: how virtual learning environments became commodities

Unthinkable a couple of years ago, and it still feels a bit April 1st: Blackboard has taken over two other virtual learning environment organisations: the Moodlerooms and NetSpot Moodle support companies in the US and Australia. Arguably as important is … Read more

Lend me your ears dear university web managers!

JISC is considering future opportunities for innovation funding in collaboration with university web departments who manage the .ac.uk pages of their website, and we’d like to make sure that what we are proposing would be of value to the sector … Read more

App-ortunity Knocks: Mobile and the future of the library

How do universities and their libraries respond to an increasingly mobile world?  At what point does mobile find itself at the heart of what a university does?  Are we at a tipping point with those that fail to address students’ … Read more

The value of local developers

The higher and further education sectors in the UK are fortunate to employ talented and dedicated software developers. Without them, many kinds of technical innovation would be significantly more difficult, more expensive or even impossible. While the patterns of employment … Read more

Maximising your online event experience

With just one week to go before the JISC11 conference in Liverpool, the final preparations are in full swing. We are working hard to ensure those of you planning to follow the conference online have as full and interactive an … Read more

Maximising your event amplification

Those of you unable to come and see us at the JISC11 conference in Liverpool next week will no doubt be keeping one eye on what is happening throughout the day with the help of your laptop, phone or tablet. … Read more

Five factors for survival

First Browne, then the Comprehensive Spending Review, and with more reviews and uncertainty to come it’s easy to feel like the distraught lover in L’Âme Immortelle’s song – “life will never be the same again.” While this is de facto true … Read more

JISC on Air – new online broadcast explores student recruitment

Today, another round of UCAS applications gets underway with the first of the application deadlines. Meanwhile, new students are settling into universities up and down the country. But how many of them will have embarked upon the right course? Lord … Read more

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