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Survey shows that social media has graduated to academia
A new survey of colleges across Scotland shows that social media, and particularly YouTube, has firmly entered the learning environment as teaching and learning tools, with its use growing significantly year on year.
Jisc recruits for new chief innovation officer
Jisc, the UK charity for digital innovation within education and research, is searching for a passionate technologist, strategist and innovator to take on the role of the organisation’s chief innovation officer and join their new leadership team.
Don your virtual wellies for the Jisc Digital Festival 2014
Jisc’s annual conference returns at the ICC in Birmingham on 11-12 March 2014. After a two-year break the conference is taking a new guise as the Jisc Digital Festival.
Head of innovation takes up new challenge after Jisc
After much deliberation, Sarah Porter head of innovation has chosen to leave Jisc in order to pursue her research innovation interests in higher education and work with higher education institutions on developing their digital strategies.
Over 18 million students and staff to benefit from faster, more secure cloud-computing
More than 18 million students, staff and researchers at institutions across the UK could start to benefit from a faster and more secure connection when using their institution’s cloud-based IT services, thanks to a new peering arrangement being signed today between Microsoft and Janet, the UK’s r
Digital savvy students offered £5k grants
2013 sees the launch of the Summer of Student Innovation pilot, to put the power to enhance the learner experience directly into the hands of teams of students, academics and experts across the UK.
UK wide survey of academics spotlights researchers’ reliance on open access
A major survey of UK academics released today examines the attitudes of researchers and practitioners working within higher education. It sheds light on their behaviours, including their reliance on digital technologies, the Internet and open access.
Jisc seeks learning providers’ views
Learning providers, supported by Jisc Regional Support Centres across the UK, are being urged to take the opportunity to influence the future products and services to be offered.
Post-World War II manufacturing brought to life
Manufacturing Pasts, a project led by the University of Leicester and funded by Jisc, today releases over 1,700 historical sources for learning and teaching.
Janet helps medical research take a step forward
Today researchers at UK universities will carry out 3D demonstrations on a ‘virtual patient’, showing how groundbreaking ultra high definition (UHD) technology is making a real difference to medical training and diagnosis.