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A report published by OCLC describes the changing priorities of librarians in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK. This is the first time that an OCLC survey has focused solely on European librarians. The report explores some of the changes that librarians are anticipating in the way their libraries will be used. A separate report … 
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Cyber Street provides easy tips so that you stay safe online. Learn how to protect your home or business from cyber crime in a fun and interactive way.
Be Cyber Streetwise is a cross-government campaign, funded by the National Cyber Security Programme, and delivered in partnership with the private and voluntary sectors. The campaign is led by the Home Office, working closely with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Cabinet Office. We aim to measurably and significantly improve the online safety behaviour and confidence of consumers and small businesses (SMEs). On this website we’ve collected links to all the great resources produced by partners, helping you find the information you need to protect yourselves, your families and your businesses.
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Teachers around the world are using edtech to connect their classrooms to the world. Here's a look at how one teacher in the United Kingdom is making it happen.
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Students are more satisfied than ever according to the National Student Survey results, which revealed that 85% were happy with the teaching on their courses. And on the other side of the desk, institutions are working hard to raise standards and meet student expectations. Last year, Jisc and our partners began to take a more holistic approach to supporting learning and teaching in universities with bespoke consultation and workshops, as well as a leadership development course for leading in technology-enhanced change. The early results are encouraging: the University of Gloucestershire said their involvement in the project “will produce a long-term legacy in changed culture and behaviour.”
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As part of our conference looking at cyber security in higher education we are publishing a report exploring how some of these issues apply in higher education
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The Higher Education Academy is funding a number of small projects for developing digital literacies through the disciplines. These projects have been selected to give a broad range of approaches which may help identify both common i.e. core themes and discipline-specific issues. This is intended to compliment the work our JISC partners have developed through the Digital Literacy programme.
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Today, the UK’s higher education (HE) system is operating at a time of significant socio-economic and political flux, and rapid technological change. To add to this complex weave, and affecting arts departments and institutions throughout the country, the value of arts education has been under intense scrutiny at all levels. Hence, our current learning landscape is one that is unsettled, and as such, requires us to devote time to study, reflect and debate educational futures and values. Engagement with, or enabling of, multiple forms of digital literacy is a critical undertaking if those involved with arts and design HE are to have a meaningful, sustained and influential engagement with emerging socio-technical developments.
[See also: http://digitalpresent.myblog.arts.ac.uk/digital-literacy/ ]
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A BLOG POST BY KARI ARFSTROM PhD, Executive Director of the Flipped Learning Network As a Fellow of the OER Research Hub Project at the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, I had the incredible o...
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The Information Literacy Framework for Wales has been endorsed as representing a unified approach to supporting and embedding Information Literacy within education and training in Wales. It is envisaged that this Framework will provide a clear and integrated development structure for practitioners delivering Information Literacy at all levels. Please choose the section of the document you would like to read from the options on the left hand menu, or to print a copy please use the PDF version below.
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FutureLearn, the first UK-led provider of massive, open, online courses (MOOCs), today unveiled its first set of courses from leading UK and international universities. Ve Interactive’s education specialist Stephen Green explains how universities can profit from a campaign, in the words of Simon Nelson, “designed 100% for students”.
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A PDF guide on how to participate in UKedchat (#UKedchat).
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Welcome to the DigiLit Leicester Framework project!
What is DigiLit Leicester? Leicester City Council’s Building Schools for the Future Programme is working in Partnership with De Montfort University on the DigiLit Leicester Project – the development of a Digital Literacy Framework for secondary level school staff. The Digilit Leicester project is designed to ensure school staff and learners are getting the most from the significant investment in technology being made across the city, and that schools are able to make best use of technology to meet their aspirations for transforming educational provision. It will help schools make sure every learner attending a BSF Programme school benefits not only from a school with world-class technology provision, but from an education that is supported and enhanced by the use of technology to raise achievement and aspiration, connect communities and open opportunities.
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We still have space for speakers at the 2nd UK Information Literacy & Summon Day. Speaking at the event offers a great opportunity to share ideas and approaches, spark discussion and contribute...
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This full day event, attended by 30 participants from around the UK, was held in York St John University. It was organised by CILIP's Academic Libraries & Research Group's Yorkshire & Humbe...
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By Sarah Schoengold Sugata Mitra has opened the doors of the world’s first School in the Cloud. Located inside George Stephenson High School in Killingworth, England, this one-room learning lab is a space where students can embark on their own learning adventures, exploring whatever questions most intrigue them. Students even designed the interior of the space — which has colorful beanbags scattered throughout and (very appropriately) fluffy clouds painted on the walls.
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Have you ever looked for good research data on the global impact of distance or online learning and discovered that this just doesn't exist? CDE has partnered with UNESCO, the European Commission, the International Association of Universities, the Sloan Consortium, StudyPortals and Babson Survey Research Group to begin work on this formidable task. [snip] The global landscape of post-secondary education is in a period of dramatic change. A significant driver for this has been a dramatic rise in the use of technology and the extension of the traditional campus to more learners. Although there is clear evidence of the growth of online learning, the global data remains anecdotal or limited in scope. There has been no formal effort or process to define online learning in the global context. [snip] The Global Online Higher Education Report (GlobalOHER) initiative is designed to address this deficiency by conducting a global survey and issuing a report that will provide: Information on enrolments and programmes offered onlineInformation on the role of MOOCs around the worldInformation on the adoption of Open Education Resources, OERPerspectives on the importance of online learning in institutional strategiesThe challenges institutions face in delivering high quality programs and servicesA framework of the policy issues that institutions believe need to be addressed
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Important themes were: a consumerist orientation, expecting value for money; wanting well-trained expert staff, good organisation and facilities, socialisation (including face to face time with teachers), and an employability focus.
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Alison Mackenzie explains how a new project is looking at the role university libraries play in developing digital literacy
The Society of College, National and University Libraries (SCONUL) is working on a project to review the roles academic libraries are playing in developing the digital literacies within their own institutions, and across the information profession. Academic librarians have a long tradition of championing the effective use of information. The SCONUL project is designed to reveal how libraries and librarians are shaping their services to maximise the opportunities and benefits of working in a digital environment. Via Fiona Harvey
Fiona Harvey's curator insight,
November 22, 2013 12:18 PM
Libraries as the centre for digital literacy training and development
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Key messages from the JISC-funded project focussing on postgraduate students at the Institute of Education
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An inner city primary is at the heart of a research project on how tablet computers may boost children's learning.
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The UK MOOC platform. Announces first tranche of courses
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Why evidence-based teaching methods are a bad idea.
At a time when society finds it hard to provide compelling answers to the problems that people face, the realm of science is being plundered in search of moral authority. The exhaustion of the old taken-for-granted ideals, values and ideologies has led to a search for new ways for validating views and opinions. Instead of trying to give meaning to the problems we face through reflection and debate, governments now embrace science as the unique source of truth....
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These calls, outlined by the science writer Ben Goldacre in a paper called Building Evidence into Education, are supported by the UK’s Department of Education.
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Epic Learning Group - UK Leaders in Learning Technologies
Accessibility is important for improving the learning experience. You should be mindful of all of your learners and those with different learning abilities and disabilities, who require specific methods of learning.
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