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 experience as possible. For someone choosing to follow a conference remotely, it is rarely now a one-way communication channel... >>
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. As an event organiser I love experimenting with new and interesting ways to amplify events as well as enhance the... >>
Co-operation of the fittest: a decade for institutional dialogue and collaboration?
1. Demographic changes. As any fan of Freakonomics will tell you, the impact of demography can be easy to miss but difficult to overstate. Universities and colleges will face demographic concerns on two fronts. a) A declining number of young people. The Office of National Statistics age cohort information indicates that the East and West Midlands face a drop of... >>
Online Distance Learning: whose future?
To me, one of the enormous surprises regarding the Browne review of Higher Education funding was the complete absence of any mention of online or blended delivery. Here was a report about the future of the delivery of education at university level, but it missed a trick by omitting the innovative online delivery going on at present. Our recent study... >>
NUS report on technology: a personal response
This report to the Higher Education Funding Council for England by the National Union of Students had the remit to 'gain a broad overview of the level of demand from students – new and potential – for online learning provision in UK higher education institutions and students’ perceptions of that learning.' In their conclusions there are several issues at play... >>
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 Browne’s recommendations this week remind us that the majority of students (or their parents) will be stumping up an increasing... >>
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