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Contents

  • Falling enrolment: stem the tide with social media

    Explore how you can use social media to boost student enrolment and market your university.

  • A new vision for education

    Toni Pearce is the NUS’s new president. We spoke to her before she took up her post and asked, “What’s topping your agenda?”

  • Open is the new digital

    Might ‘open’ be the essential idea, concept, even movement for our digital age?

  • Open access monographs: it’s not business as usual

    Potential business models for humanities and social sciences open access monographs.

  • The diversity of data

    What potential do huge repositories of digitised data hold for research?

  • Games-based learning and apps

    We look at how learning providers can develop their own games-based apps to enhance the learning experience.

  • Searching beyond Google

    Advice on alternative search engines and resources for researchers.

  • How can your students use social media to get a job?

    City recruiters share advice for getting work through Twitter and LinkedIn.

  • Top tips for building your website

    Following the re-launch of the Jisc website, our web team draw on their own experiences to share their top tips for building or re-designing your website.

  • Taking e-responsibility

    We look at e-safety for the post-16 sector, as well as the legal requirements and best practice for using online materials.

  • How can I get the most out of my learning spaces?

    We answer your questions about maximising the potential of your learning spaces to improve the experience of your students.

  • Teachers! Take the invigorating approach

    Rather than dismissing technology as irrelevant or a threat, teaching staff can open up the possibilities for job satisfaction and the development of their practice.

  • Open source software can offer savings

    Colleges could make huge cost savings by embracing open source software.

  • Students as producers

    New approaches to the idea of students as producers of learning resources are improving student engagement and helping to keep courses current.

  • UK colleges and universities on the world stage

    Collaborations with world-leading organisations on the big technological issues of the day are bringing wider recognition of the UK’s expertise and promoting its institutions as great places to study.

  • Meet Jisc @

    A round-up of events where you can talk to Jisc experts.

Welcome

Welcome to the summer edition of Jisc Inform.

For this issue we have put together several articles on how to best market your college or university and share some of the learnings from our own web team on building a successful website after our own website refresh. We include advice on setting up social media channels to improve student enrolment and suggest how to help your students find employment once graduating.

We met with Toni Pearce, the NUS’s new president, to find out what is hot on the student agenda and her advice on keeping students engaged once enrolled. This edition’s Q+A investigates how to improve your learning spaces and links to articles which focus on engaging your students and teachers to developing their skills, which can boost their enthusiasm.

Lastly, with ‘open’ being one of the hot topics of today we look at possible options to keep monographs alive for the humanities and social sciences, alongside this we delve into The Open Book and see how open may develop in our digital age.

If you don’t agree with our experts lets us know. We welcome your feedback, comments and suggestions – not just on this issue, but for possible future topics for us to cover.

Enjoy the read.

Rebecca Whitehead

Charlie Covington

Rebecca Whitehead
(Editorial team)

Charlie Covington

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Credits

Edited by: Rebecca Whitehead and Charlie Covington

Design: iD Factory

Contributors: Ben Showers, Ben Whitehouse, Caren Milloy, Charlie Covington, Christine Comrie, Christine Gormley, Deborah Ferns,  Jackie Milne, Matt Ewens, Michelle Pauli, Nathalie Southall, Neil Jacobs,  Nicola Yeeles, Rebecca Whitehead, Richard West, Sarah Williams, Sheila MacNeill, Syed Munib Hadi, Tom Mitchell, Vix Reeve. We’d also like to thank all the many people who have contributed their expertise to this edition.

Jisc Inform is produced by Jisc to raise awareness of the use of technology in supporting further and higher education in the UK. Contributing authors include members of the Jisc family of services and initiatives, Jisc’s partners and staff working in the further and higher education and skills sectors. The views expressed by contributors are not necessarily those of Jisc.

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