Utilities:
Jisc's student voter registration service, which allows university and college students to quickly and easily register to vote, has reached its first milestone – more than 1,000 student sign ups.
Nominees for the Campus of the Future category at the annual Green Gown awards offer some great examples of innovation and emerging technologies on the university estate.
Jisc has announced a new appointment to its leadership team - Karen Foster. From 17 September, Karen will lead a new data analytics directorate as executive director.
Technology is often blamed for the rise in ‘essay mills’ that make cheating too easy to resist. But could technology also help address a key cause of cheating – the pressure on struggling students?
A sticky campus is a digitally-enabled space where students want to spend time, even when they don’t have a formal teaching session to go to. It’s a learning environment designed to give students everything they need for collaborative and solitary study, and to promote active learning. It supports inclusivity and enables rich learning experiences.
The results of the digital experience insights student survey 2019 explore how learners at UK universities and colleges engage with technology.
Edtech is now firmly on the political agenda.
Jisc enterprise, OpenAthens, which is a world leader for single sign-on, has revealed its new, user-centred brand.
Staffordshire University’s 2030 strategy aims to make it the UK’s leading digital university. It’s an ambitious goal and to achieve it the university is working on a large culture change project that has staff and student digital capabilities at its core. The aim is to make sure people are equipped with the skills they’ll need to make the most of all that Education 4.0 has to offer.
Deborah Millar is a highly experienced teacher with a passion for using digital technologies to improve learning experiences for all students. In 2016 she completed our digital leaders programme. She is now group director of digital learning technology at Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education and shares her vision for the college and ideas for the future.