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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 […]

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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 […]

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Digital assessment face-to-face – survey insights

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 […]

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Is education ready for holograms and touch free interaction?

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? […]

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A workshop to explore future 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 […]

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The Metaverse in Education

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 […]

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Student Records – A sector-wide discussion

It is widely recognised across the HE sector that there is potential for improvement in the way that student records data is stored, managed, and processed at all stages of the student lifecycle. We are working with UCISA and ARC on a project which initially aims to build a consensus on the challenges that members […]

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Macro trends impacting the future of education

The last few years have seen more drivers for change in education than normal. This has made our work to identify challenges and ideas around technology that will transform education in the future quite a challenge.  What we need are some stable trends to help us to focus the direction of our activities. To be […]