Podcasts
e-Books provide 'safety valve' for librarians
For a year, 26 e-course texts across four subject areas (Medicine, Business, Engineering and Media Studies) were made available to 127 UK universities who took part in a National e-books observatory project funded by Jisc and carried out by Jisc Collections.
What are your views on the Digital Revolution?
A unique Multiplatform production for BBC Two is inviting people to contribute to an open and collaborative documentary on the way the web is changing our lives and the world.
Mobile Learning: Telling Tales
Mobile or handheld learning is already changing the way students learn, both in the classroom and on the move and Jisc is looking to guide future developments in this area.
Effective Practice in a Digital Age
In a world where we are surrounded by technology, where boundaries between our personal and professional lives merge, Jisc’s e-Learning team have been looking at how to support teachers, researchers and academics with best practice advice and guidance for working in a ‘digital age’.
The Edgeless University – Minister announces new £20m open learning innovation fund
At the launch event of the Edgeless University publication, a report produced by Demos and commissioned by Jisc, David Lammy Minister for Higher Education and IPR announced a new £20m open learning innovation fund for UK universities.
Virtual Research Environments 3 - bridge the gap for researchers
As Jisc launches a new suite of work in virtual research environments (VRE), Frederique Van Till programme manager in e-research running Jisc's VRE3 programme, talks to Rebecca O’Brien about how these environments can not only bring people together within universities but how projects are connec
'In From the Cold', a report on Orphaned Works
Access to over 50 million items held in trust by publicly funded agencies such as libraries, museums, archives and universities are being prevented from being available online due to current copyright laws.
A self-confessed geek on Jisc's 'Developer Happiness' event
In this podcast Kerry O'Neill talks, via Skype, to digital libraries and e-learning Programme Manager David Flanders who speaks about the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as the aspirations and outcomes of a Jisc-supported event for web developers called 'Developer Happiness Days'.
How Jisc opens up resources for education
In this podcast Kerry O’Neill talks with e-learning Programme Manager David Kernohan about what Jisc is doing in the Open Educational Resources (OER) arena.