We are watching you
The Web is a place where someone is always watching what you do. I understand that... but there again, the Web is such a giant metropolis, how and why would anyone notice what one individual like me is looking at and which links I'm clicking on? Then up pops Tom Barnett, the MD of a technology company that specialises in... >>
Top 5 tips for improving your e-safety
Advantages offered by the internet and current technologies are widely recognised and actively adopted in education. Students, for example, will often choose and be expected to use their own devices to share ideas, problem solve and carry out research. Despite the opportunities on offer, risks such as internet safety must be managed appropriately. Colleges and universities are legally obliged to... >>
Towards the 'Research Education Space' (RES)
As 2013 dawns, and with predictions from Cisco that by 2014, video will exceed 91% of global consumer traffic on the internet, it seems timely that a new Research Education Space from us at Jisc , the BBC and with our colleagues at the British Universities Film and Video Council ( BUFVC ) is also starting to form. There is... >>
Top 10 tips on how to make your open access research visible online
Here are a number of tips which I feel can help researchers make use of social media and related online activities to maximise the visibility of their research papers. These are based on my personal experiences and I’ve learnt a lot through trying to make my own papers more visible: 1. Be pro-active: For example, for the delivery of a... >>
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 together educators to discuss how they use Wikipedia in their teaching and Wikipedians who create and edit the content. I... >>
Jisc and crowdfunding
What links an e-paper watch , a statue of RoboCop and an open alternative to Facebook ? The answer is that all of these ideas have been funded via the crowdfunding site Kickstarter . Crowdfunding is an exciting new approach where individuals can choose to dedicate some of their own money to an idea that piques their interest. Here at... >>
Open Practice: University College Falmouth see the big picture
The temptation within an innovative organisation like Jisc is to concentrate on talking about what is new. But a chance conversation on twitter with Alex Di Savoia at University College Falmouth (UCF), holder of one of our early Jisc/Higher Education Academy Open Educational Resources phase one projects, brought home to me just how much added value can be traced back... >>
How important are open ebook standards to universities?
Ebook standards may lack the glamour that the technology attracts, but the arrival of ePub3 has the potential to transform how the academy creates and delivers its content to students and researchers. Just weeks into the New Year and already there is a new ebooks revelation that colleges and universities need to digest. January saw the launch of Apple’s new... >>
Apple's new iBooks: a force for good?
Jisc has long been associated with licensing and exploring ebooks for education, and research by Jisc Collections has shown increasing numbers of students enthusiastic about such resources as publishers and librarians seek to find suitable business models in a changing environment. So it didn’t come as much of a surprise to me to hear that now Apple’s released their own... >>
The digital humanities surrounds you
Stanley Fish recently published a blog post in the NY Times with the grandiose title, The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality . The article is engaging; it seems to sharpen the knife for the Digital Humanities but then decides not to stick it in (although that might be to follow). What strikes me about the post is that... >>