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Emerging Practice in a Digital Age explores how colleges and universities are embracing innovation and using emerging technologies to enhance learning in a climate of economic pressure, changing social circumstances and rapid technological change. 

Aimed at those in further and higher education who design and support learning, the guide draws on recent JISC reports and case studies to investigate how the emergence of new and more powerful technologies together with an increase in personal ownership of these technologies are changing the way we connect, communicate and collaborate, and how these changes can benefit learning. The focus of this guide is on emerging practice rather than emerging technology.

The case studies describe a series of exploratory journeys through the themes of:

• Working in partnership with students 
• Developing students’ employability potential
• Preparing for the future
  

Emerging Practice in a Digital Age is a companion guide to Effective Practice in a Digital Age (JISC 2009) and Innovative Practice with e-Learning (JISC 2005).

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Further information

Extended case studies

Working in partnership with students

1. Supporting student transition through reflective video sharing (PDF) University of Ulster
2. Engaging students as agents of change (PDF) University of Exeter
3. Students as partners in blending learning (PDF) University of Wolverhampton

Developing students’ employability potential

1. Developing professional practice using simulations (PDF) Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth
2. Moving into virtual worlds (PDF) University of Derby and Aston University
3. Springboard TV: enhancing employability (PDF) College of West Anglia
4. Assessment and Learning in Practice Settings (ALPS) (PDF) Universities of Leeds, Bradford and Huddersfield and Leeds Metropolitan and York St John Universities

Preparing for the future

1. Linking learning to location (PDF) University Campus Suffolk
2. Mobile Oxford: opening access to information (PDF) University of Oxford
3. Creating the culture: a holistic approach to technology-enhanced learning (PDF) Gloucestershire College

Online supplementary resources

The supplementary resources which accompany Emerging Practice in a Digital Age open up additional opportunities to learn more about the topics and themes covered in the guide. They include video case studies and podcast material from the JISC Emerging Practice Symposium 2011.

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