JISC

For many years technology has been transforming education and research, bringing about profound changes to the ways in which learners, teachers, librarians, administrators and researchers undertake their work.  JISC campaigns are an attempt to initiate conversations about the issues that are emerging as central to the sector

While the further and higher education sectors have responded quickly and effectively to change, harnessing the potential of technology to support, for example, access to a wide range of online resources, widening participation, more student-centred approaches to learning, innovative, complex and distributed research collaborations, and much more, many challenges remain.

While some of these challenges may be better addressed at the institutional level, others may benefit from broader approaches or from national debates about how ICT can be fully integrated into the life and work of colleges and universities and help ensure that UK education and research remain among the best in the world.

JISC is in the forefront of many of the issues that impact on education and research and JISC ‘campaigns’ are an attempt to initiate conversations – with national organisations and with practitioners, researchers, librarians, senior managers, administrators and others - about the issues that are emerging as central to the sector.

Research 3.0 campaign

Research 3.0 Digital technologies are rapidly changing the type of research we can tackle and the way researchers work. How will research be in future? As the key provider of the digital infrastructure for UK higher education and research, JISC is seeking answers to this question during the Research 3.0 campaign.

Student Experiences of Technology campaign

Student Experiences of Technology explores the learning experience now that students can engage with learning in diverse locations, using personal devices and public networks as well as institutional technologies, and can interact with knowledge in many domains. These opportunities present challenges as well as opportunities for the way in which higher education is delivered.

Libraries of the Future campaign

Libraries of the Future attempts to explore the issues around the enormous impact of ICT on the academic library and to look forward to ensure that libraries – however they may continue to evolve - remain at the heart of academic life.

Forthcoming campaigns

Other campaign themes will follow, possibly exploring such issues as leadership in technology, sustainability, and others. JISC will be exploring these and other possibilities and further information on future campaigns will follow in due course.