JISC is investigating the potential for mobile technologies and what impact these might have on learning and teaching practice.

Mobile Learning

Mobile and wireless technologies can provide flexible and timely access to learning resources, instantaneous communication, portability, active learning experiences and the empowerment and engagement of learners, particularly those in dispersed communities. Yet, despite the almost ubiquitous ownership of mobile phones, the adoption of mobile technologies in post-16 teaching practice is still in its infancy.
 
JISC is investigating the potential for mobile technologies and what impact these might have on learning and teaching practice.

Key mobile learning activities

10 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...

  • Transforming curriculum delivery through technology It is important for institutions to develop more flexible and creative models of delivery to support the development of autonomous, lifelong learners who are skilled in reflecting on their learning...

  • Institutional Innovation Programme The Institutional Innovation programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven...

  • e-Learning Capital programme The e-Learning Capital programme is an £11.36 million investment to support the sector in harnessing the potential of e-learning to support lifelong learners.

21 Projects
  • The John Johnson collection: an archive of printed ephemera The John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera...

  • Kingston uplift for business education This project aims to develop and evaluate models of good practice in using technology to transform the teaching, learning and assessment in higher-level business education delivered at Kingston...

  • eReturn The project will develop a pilot demonstrating the use of e-portfolios to support cross-institutional delivery of lifelong learning. A consortium of partners will evaluate the transferability of...

  • iBorrow iBorrow will allow users of a new Library and Learning Centre to borrow a notebook computer as easily as picking a book from a shelf. It will provide a large-scale demonstration of how...

  • Work-Based Access to Learning through e-Services This project aims to implement and pilot the use of social software and mobile technologies in the support of work-based online learners.

1 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...

1 Audio Visual
39 Documents
  • 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...

  • DDG Project Plan Word document This technology-focussed collaboration project for the e-learning strand of the JISC Capital Programme will take a ‘state-of-the-art’ collaboration and social-networking tool (InterLoc) and its...

  • KASTANET Project Plan Word document The KASTANET project seeks to exploit the opportunities provided by new and emerging technology to enhance the learning experience of students starting in science-based higher education. Based on a...

  • mPlat Project Plan Word document Practice based learning and the mentoring process would be improved with tools which allowed on-the-spot entry of results of assessments, such that feedback was given and follow-up actions were...

  • Newcastle Project Plan PDF document This project builds on the considerable success of the first EPICS regional ePortfolio project (http://www.epics.ac.uk) which was funded as part of the JISC 07/04 Distributed eLearning Programme...