Immersive technologies offer new ways to engage learners and create transformative experiences. But with innovation comes responsibility. Using the Association for Learning (ALT)’s Framework for Ethical Learning Technology (FELT), we explored some of these issues in a community event for the ALT/ Jisc XR community, with 68 attendees. The work into this area was inspired […]
A roundup of what the Jisc Digital Practice team have been doing & discovering this month. November’s edition is edited by Chris & Cat.
Four universities have joined a pilot programme led by Jisc and Sylla to explore how open educational resources (OER) can support more inclusive, affordable and personalised learning. Building on Coventry University’s success in replacing costly textbooks with open alternatives, the ten-week pilot is testing Sylla’s impact across a broader range of institutions. Sylla is a tech […]
Chris reflects on why we should challenge the assumption that technology is always on an inevitable upward path to improvement.
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). Digital Tools and Spaces We passed on some guidance to organisations using Anthology products this month after filing for voluntary bankruptcy protection while they reorganised […]
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 […]
One of the problematic areas of using storytelling as a tool for understanding ourselves and our world is that the relationship between story and truth is often fuzzy and unreliable. But what if we went all in on creating imaginary worlds and situations as a way of understanding and changing the real world? What if […]