Through research, innovation and piloting, JISC helps universities and colleges to develop flexible and creative curricula that harness the benefits of modern digital technologies. We aim to ensure that teachers are confident in using these new technologies and are able to make effective use of them in all aspects of course design, development and delivery.

Learning & Teaching Practice

Through research, innovation and piloting, JISC helps universities and colleges to develop flexible and creative curricula that harness the benefits of modern digital technologies. We aim to ensure that teachers are confident in using these new technologies and are able to make effective use of them in all aspects of course design, development and delivery.

Key learning & teaching practice activities

18 Programmes
  • e-Learning programme The JISC e-learning programme enables the development and effective use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching in universities and colleges, so that staff benefit from e-learning...

  • Repositories and Preservation Programme The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories...

  • Institutional approaches to curriculum design Curriculum design is generally understood as a high-level process defining the learning to take place within a specific programme of study, leading to specific unit(s) of credit or qualification. The...

  • e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme The e-Learning Framework is a service-oriented factoring of the core services required to support e-Learning applications, portals and other user agents.

  • Users & Innovation: Personalising Technologies Based on the needs of real end-users, the programme will identify areas where innovative user technologies and practices can increase efficiency.

147 Projects
  • 19th century pamphlets online This project will provide online access to the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. Digitising around 30,000 paper copy pamphlets, which focus on the...

  • British newspapers 1620-1900 1.1 million pages are being digitised from 18th and 19th century news, building on previous projects to enable access to a virtual library containing some 4 million digitised pages of important...

  • A digital library of core e-resources on Ireland The digitisation of over 70 key journals, 205 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from core Irish Studies collections makes this comprehensive, multi-disciplinary digital library the first point of...

  • Historic boundaries of Britain This project will create a comprehensive digital library of historic administrative boundaries for Britain through a combination of scanning historical maps and creating vector boundaries for...

  • Making the new diploma a success This project will address a national challenge – the introduction of the new diplomas. The key challenge is the coordination of delivery and support from a variety of locations such as schools, the...

5 Services
  • JISC Digital Media JISC Digital Media provides advice and guidance on the creation and use of digital media collections in learning, teaching and research. JISC Digital Media aims to promote and develop good practice...

  • JISC infoNet JISC infoNet aims to be the UK's leading advisory service for managers in the post-compulsory education sector promoting the effective strategic planning, implementation and management of information...

  • JISC RSCs (Regional Support Centres) The 13 JISC RSCs provide a comprehensive, regionally-based support service for the use of networked learning technologies and resources for FE Colleges, small HE Colleges and other local educational...

  • JISC TechDis JISC TechDis is the leading educational advisory service providing advice and guidance on technology and disability to promote an accessible and inclusive experience for students and staff. JISC...

  • JISC Advance Advancing education, research and management through expertise, advice and inspiration in the use of technology.

13 Audio Visual
  • Podcast: Technology is a 'phenomenal asset' to education, says Lord Puttnam MP3 (Duration: 25.04) Lord Puttnam of Queensgate is a champion for education. Chancellor of the Open University, Founder of the National Teaching Awards and former chair of NESTA - the National Endowment...

  • Podcast: Supporting Academic Staff MP3 (Duration 15:29) A plethora of resources exist to support and enhance academic staff in their learning and teaching practices. With developing technologies, new learning approaches and changing...

  • Video: Digital Anthropology Resources for Teaching Windows Media Video A joint venture between JISC and the National Science Foundation in the United States, Digital Libraries in the Classroom is an innovative programme, driven by learning needs as opposed to the...

  • Video: Distributed Innovative Design, Education and Teamwork (DIDET) Windows Media Video A joint venture between JISC and the National Science Foundation in the United States, Digital Libraries in the Classroom is an innovative programme, driven by learning needs as opposed to the...

  • Video: Spoken Word Services Windows Media Video A joint venture between JISC and the National Science Foundation in the United States, Digital Libraries in the Classroom is an innovative programme, driven by learning needs as opposed to the...

200 Documents
  • A Digital Library of Core e-Resources on Ireland project plan PDF document This project, over a period of two years, will digitise and make available in a sustainable way at least 100 journal titles, 205 monographs and 2,500 pages of manuscript all relating to Irish...

  • Digitisation of the London Broadcasting Company/Independent Radio News Archive project plan PDF document Bournemouth University aims to digitise the recordings relating to news and current affairs from the LBC/IRN archive, and to create a complete on line searchable database of the catalogue including...

  • British Newspapers Map 1800-1900 PDF document Read all about Britain and the world from the Industrial Revolution to the Boxer Rebellion. This will deliver up to 2 million pages, totalling approximately 10 billion words of British newspapers...

  • Electronic Ephemera project plan PDF document The project will digitise an extensive selection of materials from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera housed in the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford. It represents an...

  • British Newspapers 1620-1900 project plan PDF document The objective for this project is to digitise some 1.1 million pages from regional and local newspapers from the 19th century and all of these are intended to be uploaded to the website currently...