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Jisc 2011 round up

What did you come to Jisc to find out about in 2011?

This year has seen approximately half a million people visit the Jisc website – who have looked at over 2.3 million pages in 2011 taking advantage of our resources and guidance across teaching, learning and research.

Nearly 800 of you took time to visit the Jisc website on Christmas Day 2010 with the most popular searched story on the day being the Great War Archive rolled out in Germany.

What were you looking for?

Funding, online resources and Jisc Collections were the three most searched-for terms on Jisc’s website in 2011, with the top topics you wanted to know about shown below:

What were you reading?

Top five news stories as viewed by you in 2011:

  1. The Burney Collection: 17th and 18th Century newspapers free online
  2. Jisc to reshape to deliver in a competitive market
  3. ‘Google Generation’ is a myth, says new research
  4. UK’s open access full-text search engine to aid research
  5. Tech-savvy doctoral students increasingly look to open web technologies

What were you viewing?

Over 25,700 of you watched us online.

The top five YouTube videos you visited were:

  1. Libraries of the Future strategy video
  2. myExperiment film about the social media site for scientists
  3. British Newspapers 1620-1900 Showreel
  4. Knowledge Is - a short film about opening up access to archives
  5. Using audio in higher education - Film & Sound Think Tank

What did you listen to?

Top five podcasts:

  1. Breaking down the e-books barrier: Jisc – News
  2. ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’ report
  3. Keynote speaker hails the collaborative power of wikis
  4. Open source – an open and shut case?
  5. What do learners think of ICT? 

What did you download?

Top five reports:

  1. What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education
  2. Digital Preservation Coalition: Training Needs Analysis Final Report
  3. TechLearn: Interactive Whiteboards in Education
  4. Information of the Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future
  5. Jisc & SCONUL: Library Management Systems Study

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View the Jisc Annual review 2010/2011 here