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Warwick launch of staff JISC digital learning experience survey

Thu, 21 Mar 2024 18:46:41 GMT

Help Warwick Uni to improve your digital experience

Dear Staff,
We’d like to know more about your digital expectations and experiences and how these affect your work. This will help us improve the services available to you, and our support for teaching and learning.

Please take 10 minutes to share your thoughts in the Warwick Jisc Digital Survey and you could win a £10 Amazon voucher.

Warwick launch of JISC digital learning experience survey

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:10:19 GMT

Warwick has made the decision to invest in the JISC service and the JISC student survey launched at the end of November 2023.

Staff please encourage your students to complete and watch out for the Warwick staff version which hopefully will launch early next year.

Students please tell us about your digital learning experiences at Warwick, so we can improve the services available to you. Share your thoughts in the Warwick JISC Digital Survey and you could win 1 of 10 Amazon vouchers!

Designing learning and assessment in a digital age: Online guide

Tue, 30 Jan 2018 15:02:09 GMT

JISC is pleased to announce the launch of Designing learning and assessment in a digital age, a new online guide to technology-enhanced curriculum design for higher education, FE and skills.

This comprehensive guide brings together in one resource the most significant outputs from a decade of research and development around technology-enhanced curriculum and learning design and the most up-to-date exemplars of good practice in designing learning and assessment in a digital context.

Learning design is a considered, creative process that occurs within a wider eco-system of people, processes, systems and places. As the elements in the eco-system change, and the technologies available to us increase, it becomes ever more important to keep up to date.

Taking an appreciative inquiry approach as its starting point, you will find Designing learning and assessment in a digital age incorporates short accessible guidance to keep you informed and a wealth of ideas, expert viewpoints and resources to help you make faster progress towards your digital learning goals. This guidance is supported by case studies, audio and video resources plus links to further information about the services JISC offer to institutions across the sector.

JISC are running a workshop on the 20^th March, focusing on data-informed blended learning design and more information is available from https://www.jisc.ac.uk/events/data-informed-blended-learning-design-workshop-20-mar-2018

To keep informed of future developments and events related to learning design, join the Learning Design Cross Institutional Network @ LEARNINGDESIGN@JISCMAIL.AC.UK and follow https://sites.google.com/site/learningdesignsig/home

JISC also welcome your feedback on the guide to inform future iterations. Please email any comments to Sarah.knight@jisc.ac.uk

Online learning readiness tool

Fri, 07 Oct 2016 13:29:14 GMT

Do you want to scale up online learning? JISC have just launched three new guides with supporting checklists and a beta Online learning readiness tool to help you with the processes and decisions involved in scaling up online learning at an organisational level.

The JISC Online learning readiness tool (https://onlineready.jisc.ac.uk/):

Takes you through some key questions which will identify your personal or teams readiness for creating, delivering or supporting online learning
Offers a reflective process by providing a brief synopsis of your experience levels and will offer further resources to take you forward.
Points you to key topic areas where you can review selected resources within our three guides and other resources

Please give JISC feedback on your use of the tool so they can improve the user experience during any future developments of the service.

Three JISC guides indicate the barriers and actions you can take as well as illustrated examples from institutions that have developed useful approaches to overcoming the barriers. They are:

Scaling up online learning guide provides a strategic view of different models and the implications of implementing online learning at an institutional level. This guide will be of particular interest to senior managers such as pro vice chancellors and directors of learning and teaching.
Curriculum design and support for online learning guide helps you make decisions around curriculum design and to determine support needs when scaling up online learning.
Technology and tools for online learning guide provides guidance, resources and case studies around the use of technology to support online courses and distance learning programmes.

Each guide includes:

A checklist of key questions that teams and individuals within an institution can use to consider what they need to do or change to scale up their online learning
Key barriers and ways to overcome these
Links to further resources and tools

Using JISC guides, checklists and the Online learning readiness tool, you and your colleagues can help ensure that online students receive as equitable a service and student experience as campus-based students. You may also be interested in the recent report ‘What makes a successful online learner?’ http://ji.sc/onlinesurveyreport which found that:

Online learners have a strong sense of responsibility for their own learning, which on the one hand gives them more flexibility and personal control but may lead in some cases to learning providers abdicating responsibility.
Online learners can bring a range of attributes that impact on their success online including: previous experience, motivations and aspirations, self-efficacy, study habits, demographic factors and their own beliefs about online learning
Emotions around the concept of ‘enjoyment and fun’ and ‘boredom, frustration and anger’ can have a significant impact on the success of an online learner and those that can develop an emotional ‘robustness’ are more likely to succeed.