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 […]
Digital assessments on campus at scale – insights from the survey The issues discussed in in our previous blog post on Digital assessment face-to-face were used to create a survey that was sent out to a small list of institutions. The response rate was quite low (12 in total), however all the institutions who responded […]
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Digital assessments face-to-face
Exploring the challenges and approaches to delivering digital assessments on campus at scale Background The pandemic was a driver for many institutions to move towards doing more digital assessments. By necessity these assessments were delivered remotely using a variety of software products that could manage the assessment process and provide different levels of security and […]
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Exploring Futures Now
We are piloting a workshop to explore the future challenges of higher and further education. The purpose is to help people imagine what the future of education might look like over the next 30 years. As part of the Association of Colleges pre conference activities for Love Colleges week we ran a workshop to Imagine […]
As the landscape of tertiary education (UK FE and HE sectors) continues to evolve, the integration of accessibility and accessible practices has become a focal point for educational institutions. In part, this was driven by the introduction of the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations in 2018 and by the social shift to inclusive practice over […]