I'm a Subject Specialist at Jisc focusing on online learning and digital student experience.
This month marks the 10th anniversary of the first post on our Inspiring Learning blog! Our first author was our colleague Celeste McLaughlin who had shared this piece with us shortly before leaving for a more senior role at the University of Edinburgh. 173 posts later, here we are! This has been (and continues to […]
The Digital Practice round-up for March 2026 of the things we’ve been reading, watching and discovering this month. Lots of Digifest-related activity this month for you to peruse as well as a potentially significant moment in our relationship with big tech platforms like Meta and YouTube.
A bumper issue of our monthly roundup of what the Jisc Digital Practice team have been doing and discovering over the last few weeks.
One of the major challenges of creating story experiences or learning resources using 360 video footage is how to direct the viewers’ attention when you need to. This post won’t try to answer the the question of why you might want to use 360 video. I’ll assume for now you’ve made that decision. Part of […]
This is our monthly roundup of what the team have been doing and discovering over the last few weeks. This edition has been edited by Chris with contributions from Scott.
Chris reflects on why we should challenge the assumption that technology is always on an inevitable upward path to improvement.
Martyn Rollason, Anthology Director of Customer Services EMEA responds to the questions & points raised about their bankruptcy protection filing that we raised in last week’s blog.
Anthology, makers of Blackboard have filed for voluntary bankruptcy protection to allow them to restructure. Some clarification and advice for Jisc members
A roundup of what the Jisc Digital Practice team have been doing and discovering over the last few weeks. This edition has been edited by Chris (CT) and Cat (CB), with additional input from Scott (SH). Digital Tools and Spaces Reality check: XR industry report This thorough report by the Ada Lovelace Institute on the state […]
If you haven’t already read part 1, start there. It’s important context to what follows. The session led by Peter Bryant, Donna Lanclos and Lawrie Phipps on the fictional University of Banford was a little bomb of chaos detonated at the heart of the RIDL conference! I mean that in a positive way, something done […]