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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What ideas do you have for using holograms in education? How could you use hand tracking to interact with a screen or virtual environment? We have been exploring some emerging technologies and plan to bring some examples along to conferences over the next year. We’d like to hear what you think. What are the challenges? […]
This is an example of a workshop we have been developing around imagined futures for universities and colleges. It is based around a set of challenge cards that are used to pose examples of things that could happen in the next 10-15 years. The purpose is to help participants imagine what the impact could be […]
We have published a news article Times Higher Education , Should we be worried? An educators’ introduction to the metaverse that provides a guide to the metaverse for education. What is it and what might it mean for the future of education? There is now a version on the Jisc website of An educators’ guide […]