Categories
Co-design

Digital assessment maturity model: assessment design

As part of our work on a digital assessment maturity model, this post contains a more in-depth look at the assessment design phase. Assessment design When approaching and understanding assessment design, most assessment will be simple, and often paper-based. The design process is often manual. Digital assessment may be sometimes used to supplement traditional assessment […]

Categories
Co-design

Scottish Colleges Data Landscape

Some of the co-design team are starting a new activity working with Scottish colleges, to explore data management across the sector. The project has emerged from discussions with Scottish college principals, board representatives and the Scottish Funding Council. From our initial research we can see there are clear challenges around data management and associated systems, […]

Categories
Co-design

Reflections from the Student Experience Experts Group

On the 22nd of November, members of Jisc’s edtech and co-design team attended the 50th Meeting of the Student Experience Experts Group: Harvey Norman, Marcus Elliot, Chloe Tambling, Kike Fatogun, and Lawrie Phipps.   Keynote – Digital Transformation as Praxis: How to make it happen  Professor Arunangsu Chatterjee, Dean of Digital Transformation at the University […]

Categories
Co-design

Consumerism – Neoliberal Education – Climate Change

I spent some time over Christmas reflecting on digital education and the post I wrote about digital capabilities and climate back in July, mostly because I was sat in a “bomb cyclone” in New England – another of the extreme weather events which are becoming more regular. I’m not sure what direction I am taking here, but […]

Categories
Co-design

There’s an app for that!

Some members of the EdTech and Co-design team did a co-design activity around Student Loneliness. From this sprang an idea for an app, to be called Peer Connect, which would allow online students to connect with their peers on their course to help support their learning outcomes.   The idea for Peer Connect came from speaking to […]

Categories
Co-design

Engaging with Edtech in 2023

Having spent the last two years working with the sector and understanding their needs around the edtech market; we have learnt that a big priority for our members is to have access to insightful information about this market. There has been an incredible number of changes since 2020 and we aim to make sense of […]

Categories
Co-design

Macro-trends: initial scaling education design sprint

In education, we often hear the same issues cropping up again and again: lecture capture, learning analytics, internationalisation, and so on. These are all important, and we often approach them thematically, within their own bubbles. In Paul Bailey’s recent post about macro trends, he says “we believe that significant and accelerated change can be expected […]

Categories
Co-design

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 […]

Categories
Co-design HE

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 […]

Categories
Co-design

Reducing Research Bureaucracy – Understanding the problems

In January 2020, the Prime Minister’s package of science announcements included: “…launching a major review of research bureaucracy and methods, including unnecessary paperwork, arduous funding applications and research selection processes. This will free up and support the best researchers to focus on ground-breaking, ambitious and meaningful research…” Sounds great, right? We can certainly all understand the […]