This year, the Jisc innovation team did something we had never done before: created an immersive 3D digital world. The Virtual Innovation Hub (Or VIH as we tend to call it) is a proof of concept containing four zones. Each zone is dedicated to a particular theme that we have been exploring […]
Our research aims Conversations around Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) and its impact on education continue to dominate conference agendas and fuel fierce debate. As a research team in Group CTO, we are working to understand the daily reality of how GAI tools are being approached and used within institutions and to learn about their impact. […]
I have taken some of the ideas from the Assessment Futures workshop and written an assessment future scenario. Many thanks to the workshop participants for their ideas and apologies if I have misinterpreted them. The future scenario is meant to provoke and challenge what we do now, and help us to identify what would be […]
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Assessment Futures
Many thanks to everyone who attended the workshop to explore the future of digital assessment on the 1 May 2024. I wanted to build on the Future of Assessment 2035 workshop we delivered in June 2022 and use some of the learning and resources from the Imagined Future workshops we are running this year. The […]
March was a very active month for the Imagined Futures Workshops, and Digifest 2024 was a significant highlight. Our team facilitated an Imagined Futures Workshop on each day of the Digifest event. With the aim of constructing a vision for the future of education and only 45 minutes available to do it in, these were ambitious workshops. […]
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Student records: the current landscape
Understanding the challenges and opportunities in student records management in universities Since August 2022, Jisc, UCISA, and ARC have been working together on a joint project to build a consensus on the challenges that members are facing storing, managing, and processing student records, as well as investigating potential improvements. The research included interviews with 18 […]
Our workshop exploring the future challenges of higher and further education has been extensively piloted and is ready for launch. We are running 45-minute sessions, in person, on both days of the Digifest event. Predicting the future is tricky, but we can start to imagine what it could be like. The educational landscape is […]
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Why we check the facts
We are constantly bombarded with headlines that claim to reveal the latest breakthroughs, trends, and innovations in technology. But how often do we stop and question the validity, accuracy, and relevance of these headlines? How often do we dig deeper and look for the evidence, the context, and the implications of these claims? Yellow Journalism […]
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BETT 2024 – some of our insights
Over the years I have been attending BETT I have always found it a useful radar of current trends in educational technology. So I gathered together some thoughts from across the team who attended around what they were seeing at BETT 2024. As you might expect Artificial Intelligence (AI) was everywhere this year, but […]
E-Sports was a big topic at Bett. I had expected AI to take the spotlight and while it had a major presence, Microsoft’s stand was dedicated to their AI co-pilot and other companies were happy to advertise their use of AI. E-Sports dominated. It even had its own dedicated area, where talks on the topic […]