Big picture stuff! What we’re thinking about the state of technology enhanced learning.
The construction industry is often seen as hands-on and practical, but digital skills are central to how learners are trained and how construction businesses and self employed workers operate. To explore this in more depth, we interviewed teaching practitioners from further education (FE) colleges and an industry training board to understand what digital skills are currently being taught, what learners will need in the future, and where the biggest opportunities and challenges lie.
Cat Bailey reflects on a collaboration between Jisc and University of Exeter looking at learning technology piloting in tertiary education.
Highlights from Jisc’s Digifest 2026 event. In this post Scott explores our complex relationship with technology and how it impacts our wellbeing in a podcast with Dan Owens, Digital Wellbeing Officer at Coleg y Cymoedd.
At Digifest this year, we hosted a discussion session with around 45 delegates to explore how smart glasses might be used in post16 education, either as an assistive technology or as a teaching and learning tool. We explored three scenarios: supporting visually impaired and hard‑of‑hearing learners, and using smart glasses in specialist environments such as […]
The Digital Storytelling workshop at Digifest 26 – How did people think storytelling could impact on employability?
Catherine provides an overview of the Digital Wellbeing workshop at Digifest 2026 and invites you to join the Digital Wellbeing community
Scott unpacks how Action Learning Sets can help libraries in Higher Education work through digital transformation projects.
Online collaboration has become a defining feature of contemporary academic and professional work. Yet despite widespread familiarity with digital tools, many teams continue to struggle with engagement, inclusion, and effectiveness in virtual environments. This blog post argues that Tuckman’s model of team development provides a useful conceptual framework for understanding and improving online collaboration practices.
Scott investigates an emerging challenge for FE and HE across the UK in light of recent findings from the Mental Health UK charity. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future concept in mental health support – it is already part of everyday life. More than one in three adults (37%) say they have used an AI chatbot to support their mental health or wellbeing. For educators working in higher education (HE) and further education (FE), this should be a wake-up call.
As part of ALT/ Jisc XR Community’s work investigating the ethical use of immersive technology, we’ve invited Matthew Coxon (Programme Lead (BSc, Psychology) and Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology at York St John University), who is a member of our steering group, to share his experiences: Over the past decade, we’ve been developing our approach to using virtual reality in Psychology teaching at York St John […]