Predicting and Preparing For Emerging Learning Technologies

Led by Esther Barrett, subject specialist in teaching, learning and assessment, Jisc. With contributions from: Geoff Elliott, learning and technology development manager, Pembrokeshire College Berni Tyler, managing director, ISA Training Connect more in Wales, Thursday 7 July 2016

Led by Lawrie Phipps, senior co-design manager, Jisc. With contributions from: Terri Smith, head of innovative learning, West College Scotland Sheila MacNeill, senior lecturer in blended learning, Glasgow Caledonian University Jisc Connect more in Scotland, 16 June 2016

This talk was given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at UKOLN's "Exploiting the Potential Of Wikis" workshop held on 3 November 2006. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/wiki-workshop-2006/

Led by Scott Hibberson, subject specialist - online learning and the digital student experience, Jisc. With contributions from: Marcus Elliott and Kerry Pinny, digital educational developers, University of Lincoln Connect more in Nottingham, Tuesday 12 July 2016.

This document discusses becoming a digital scholar and engaging in digital scholarship. It introduces digital scholarship as changing scholarly practices through digital and networked technologies. Examples of digital scholarship practices mentioned include open access publishing, open educational resources, digital scholarly profiles, online research tools, and personal learning networks. The document also discusses open access publishing models like gold, green, and hybrid open access and their benefits and challenges. It addresses choosing an openness option for one's work and sharing scholarly outputs online while selecting appropriate licenses and platforms.

Jisc's summer of student innovation program received a large amount of engagement from students. 37 ideas were submitted by students, with 33 reaching their target number of votes to be considered for funding. The program received over 6,000 votes and extensive social media attention. In the end, 4 projects were selected for further funding based on student votes and ideas. An additional 2 new projects emerged from the final event. The program was very successful at engaging students and crowdsourcing ideas for new digital initiatives.

This document summarizes a presentation on developing digital leadership in higher education. It discusses the need for organizational responses and shared leadership to meet challenges of the digital age. It suggests preparing learners for a global, networked society; ensuring new business models meet learner expectations; and making it easier to disrupt institutional practices. Examples are provided of developing digital capabilities at Oxford Brookes University through various initiatives like open online courses and building communities of digital leaders.

This document discusses leveraging change through digital capability at Kingston University London (KUL). It provides an overview of the Centre for Higher Education Research and Practice (CHERP), which advances pedagogy, professional practice and research in higher education. It outlines KUL's history with technology enhanced learning (TEL) and key drivers for change, including the new university education strategy and targets. The summary discusses KUL's new virtual learning environment (VLE) procurement and approach, which aligns with its educational strategy and curriculum design principles through a universal design for learning. The new approach also includes a strengthened TEL team, quality framework and governance.

Mobile learning is the “exploitation of ubiquitous handheld hardware, wireless networking and mobile telephony to facilitate, support, enhance and extend the reach of teaching and learning” (MoLeNET, quoted in Jisc infoNet’s Mobile Learning infoKit). This meta-workshop brings together Jisc’s advisory services to deliver a wide-ranging guide to best practice and pitfall avoidance to allow learners to work with the gadgets and platforms most suitable and accessible for their context. Whether the context is learners using their own devices (that smartphone attached to their hand, that birthday present tablet), or, in some cases, institution-provided devices, there are technical, pedagogic and organisational challenges to providing the learners with a high-quality, seamless experience. This workshop will introduce the wide range of practical, relevant Jisc resources, services and tools enabling the delivery of versatile, expectation-meeting, fit for purpose mobile learning. This session will introduce the relevant resources, distil the key issues, and outline best practice in respect to mobile learning. Jisc’s expertise has already considered issues in relation to strategy and relationship to institutional mission, pedagogy, curriculum design and delivery, learning resource issues, technical implementation, legal issues, accessibility and inclusion, and training needs.

Led by Martin Hamilton, futurist, Jisc. With contribution from James Bruton, digital inclusion worker at Bristol City Council. This session will explore the potential that technology can bring to all forms of collaboration, and consider the difference that it has made to some local organisations and their practices. Connect more in Cheltenham, 30 June 2016

Led by Helen Blanchett, subject specialist, scholarly communications, Jisc. With contribution from Andrew Simpson, associate university librarian (procurement and metadata and systems), Portsmouth University. In this session you’ll hear in this session you’ll hear about the benefits and challenges of open access. Connect more in London, 28 June 2016

This document summarizes the agenda for the 46th meeting of Jisc's student experience experts group. The meeting will include presentations and discussions on the future of assessment, transforming assessment and feedback through technology, and equipping staff with digital capabilities. Presentations will cover Jisc's research on the future of assessment, examples of effective practice from Manchester Metropolitan University and Preston's College, and supporting new students' digital experience. The agenda also includes virtual coffee breaks and a lunch break. Recordings and materials from the event will be made available on Jisc's website.

This document outlines Jisc's visions for 2020 and how they developed those visions. It discusses key points from each vision, including data, student/learner control, AI and automation, staff skills, and more. It also notes how Jisc's current portfolio partly delivers the visions and how they can add to the portfolio. The document encourages readers to get involved and provides contact information.

The document outlines a university's strategy for adopting and supporting Web 2.0 technologies to improve the student experience. Key points include: 1) The strategy commits to supporting emerging technologies like blogs, wikis, and instant messaging to better engage students and change communication flows. 2) Implementing the strategy involved learning more about these technologies and how students currently use them. 3) There are technical, teaching, and marketing challenges to address, but the benefits of improving the student experience are seen as outweighing the risks.

Presentation given as part of Office of Faculty and Instructional Development (OFID) Facutly Faculty PD Workshop. Doha October 30, 2014

Building capability for new digital leadership, pedagogy and efficiency, delivered by Sarah Davies at the Jisc Learning and teaching practice experts group

Led by your host Helen Lazarus, head of Jisc London, the opening session will set the scene for the day and will include a strategic update, and the latest news from Jisc. With contributions from Michael Heanue and Catherine Knivett, principal policy officers, Greater London Authority. Jisc Connect more in London, 28 June 2016

Slides for talk on "What are the Major Technology Trends that will Impact Library Services and their Users?" to be given by Brian Kelly, Innovation Advocate, Cetis at the ILI 2014 conference in London on 21-22 October 2014. See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2014/

The document summarizes Brian Kelly's presentation on identifying and preparing for technological developments. Kelly discusses approaches for identifying technology trends, such as reviewing reports from experts like Gartner and commissioning reports. He also advocates using a collaborative approach like Twitter to minimize biases and gain fresh insights. Kelly summarizes the key findings of the NMC Horizon Report, including short-term technology trends in electronic publishing and affordable software. He outlines the Delphi process used to identify drivers of adoption and challenges. The presentation stresses the importance of considering future implications and preparing institutions for technological changes.

Slides "D1: The NMC Methodology" for a one-day workshop on "Preparing for the Future: Technological Challenges and Beyond" by Brian Kelly and Tony Hirst at the ILI 2015 conference. Held on Monday 19 October 2015 For further information see http://ukwebfocus.com/events/ili-2015-preparing-for-the-future

Slides for a paper on "Reflecting on Yesterday, Understanding Today, Planning for Tomorrow" presented by Brian Kelly at the Umbrella 2013 conference in Manchester on 2 July 2013. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/umbrella-2013/

Slides for a 1-day workshop on "Future Technologies and Their Applications" facilitated by Brian Kelly and Tony Hirst at the ILI 2013 conference on Monday 14 October 2013. See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2013-workshop/ See http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/ili-2013-workshop/

Slides for a talk on "Making Sense of the Future" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the ILI 2012 (#ILI2012) conference held at Olympia, London on 30-31 October 2012. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/ili-2012/a101/

Slides for a workshop on "Preparing For The Future: Helping Libraries Respond to Changing Technological, Economic and Political Change" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at a staff development workshop at the University of York on 4 July 2013. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/york-library-2013/ .

Slides for a workshop session on "Preparing for Tomorrow’s World: Helping University Information Services Respond to Technological, Economic and Political Change" facilitated by Brian Kelly at the Information Services 2014 conference held on 24 June 2014 at the University of Brighton. For further information see http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/preparing-for-tomorrows-world/

Brian Kelly presented a methodology for identifying emerging technologies that may impact organizations. He discusses scanning for weak and strong signals of emerging technologies. The methodology includes gathering evidence from blogs, reports and trends to understand limitations and have informed discussions. Open sense-making is important to get feedback and avoid misinterpretations that could influence decisions. Examples showed applying the methodology to social media usage, open data, and signals around funding changes.

Slides for a talk on "Spotting Tomorrow's Key Technologies" given by Brian Kelly, UKOLN at the UKSG 2013 conference held in Bournemouth on 8-10 April 2013. See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/conferences/uksg-2013/

Brian Kelly presented a methodology for identifying emerging technologies that may impact organizations. He discussed scanning for weak and strong signals of future trends, making sense of findings, and obtaining feedback to inform planning. Examples highlighted the importance of mobile technologies, social media, open data and monitoring privatization discussions for early signals of change. The methodology can help organizations understand technological changes and determine how to adapt strategies accordingly.

Slides for an invited talk on "Understanding the Past; Being Honest about the Present; Planning for the Future" given by Brian Kelly, Cetis at the SAOIM 2014 conference in Pretoria on 4-5 June 2014. For further information see Slides available at: http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/saoim-2014-lets-predict-the-future-workshop/

Slides on "Let's Predict the Future: Some Approaches" for a workshop session on "Predicting the Future" held on 3 June 2014 at the SAOIM 2014 conference in Pretoria, South Africa and facilitated by Brian Kelly, Cetis. See https://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/events/saoim-2014-lets-predict-the-future-workshop/