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Virtual Innovation Hub – Why did we build it?

Welcome to the second blog on the Virtual Innovation Hub. If you missed the first, feel free to catch up before reading on.   Our interest in creating a 3D digital world grew out of research on the metaverse that the team completed in 2022. The conclusion was that the Metaverse as popularly advanced in […]

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Introducing the Virtual Innovation Hub

  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 […]

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Pathfinders progress

Jisc Pathfinders is an innovative programme designed to help Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) institutions tackle some of the most significant challenges in the education sector.   The initiative, which launched in November 2022, invites institutions to partner with a small team at Jisc to develop and refine ideas using proven innovation pipeline […]

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HE Thought leadership

How can edtech support the reimagining of the campus?

Campuses were regarded as the centre of the university experience prior to the pandemic, however, the pandemic changed everything about the experience of higher education for the vast majority of students. Universities are now having to consider how to adapt their campuses for a post-pandemic future with a sustained and coordinated effort to make students’ […]

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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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IT Estates: Advancing our members’ digital transformation

In recent times we have seen technology become central to the operation of educational institutions and supporting the student learning experience. The shift towards digital learning skyrockets the need for this to be embraced by the education sector.  With the right guidance, digital transformation can, for example, enhance the student learning experience, improve the quality […]