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Collaboration to support student success and wellbeing

Lis Parcell, Jacinta Jolly and Angela Combe reflect on a Digifest workshop hosted by the Jisc FE Library LRC community.

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Storytelling in learning: humanising the digital

TL;DR summary – loads of people turned up to our digital storytelling community activity at Digifest last week. This made me realise something important about humanising learning in a world that is being increasingly automated. Our storytelling community activity It was Digifest last week and we were really pleased to run a get-together for the […]

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What can we learn from the ALT/ Jisc XR community at Digifest 2025?

Despite the lunchtime slot, it was a solid turnout for the extended reality (XR) community meet up at Digifest, reflecting the growing interest and engagement in XR within the sector.

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Early findings from the digital sustainability interviews

Scott shares the early findings from the interviews with members for the Jisc project ‘Embedding digital sustainability into teaching and learning.’ The key themes so far are discussed, including the challenges as well as good practice and useful resources.

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Transforming education: Jisc Adobe collaboration drives employability and skills development in higher education

How an innovative Jisc and Adobe collaboration is supporting the first cohort of universities to roll out Adobe Express across their campuses through their ‘transforming together’ programme.

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Collaborating on Jisc’s introduction to digital sustainability e-learning module 

Digital Sustainability Specialist Cal Innes shares insights into the collaborative process behind developing Jisc’s Introduction to Digital Sustainability e-learning module, emphasising teamwork, feedback, and iterative design.

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What does it mean to be data literate?

Defining data literacy “It’s about knowing how to use and communicate data.” “Data literacy is key to informing strategic planning.” These were just a couple of the responses from our recent data literacy workshop. Other examples included “using tables, spreadsheets, and infographics” to tell stories. What do you think? At Jisc, we believe that being […]

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Improving focus with the Pomodoro technique

Your Teams account pings with a new notification. A meeting invite pop-up screams for attention. A fresh email arrives. Social media needs checking—the demands on your time from digital can be a huge distraction. As much as we all can’t do without digital communication, it can often get in the way of your productivity. At […]

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Meta educators community summit – an update from the ALT/ Jisc XR community

On the evening of Sunday 10th and all day Monday 11th November, Meta hosted an educators summit in London focused on XR in education, bringing together around 100 attendees primarily from UK but also including some European institutions. From the Jisc XR steering committee, Gary Burnett (Loughborough) and Matt Coxon (York St John) were in attendance and gave short talks – Gary and Matt also composed this blog post for the community.

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Changing places

Reflections from workshops with staff from FE colleges in Wales, looking at how their physical learning spaces are changing, and might change in the future.