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Dom Walker

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Digital experience and surveys @Jisc. Past life in museum studies, publishing. Also likes fantasy football, gaming and cooking, among other things that make up a life.

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The surveys are open until end of May - please repost if you can. We'd love as many opinions from Further Education staff as possible.

21.05.2025 13:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Don't forget, the national digital experience insights survey is open to all FE teaching and professional staff. Tell us your views by 30 April and help us to understand and optimise your digital engagement ➑️ ji.sc/FE-survey25

24.04.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our new national survey for FE staff is now open, don't miss the chance to give us your views on digital tech at work.

Teaching staff survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/insights25...

Professional services staff survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/insights25...

@jisc.bsky.social

10.04.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Could watch that for hours!

10.04.2025 14:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Our new national survey for FE staff is now open, don't miss the chance to give us your views on digital tech at work.

Teaching staff survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/insights25...

Professional services staff survey: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/insights25...

@jisc.bsky.social

10.04.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
National digital experience insights survey opens for FE college staff - Jisc

If you work in Further Education, we'd love to hear about about your experiences with all things digital. Please fill out our survey for Teaching Staff or Professional Services staff. Read more here: www.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/nat.... #FE #EdTech

09.04.2025 08:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ah thanks for the reminder! What time do they start?

13.12.2024 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A few write ups:
THE: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/one-fou...
FE News: www.fenews.co.uk/edtech/jisc-...
University World News: www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

26.11.2024 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our range of student, teaching staff and professional services staff survey results are out now. Across HE and FE, these reveal the digital experiences faced by staff and students in the two sectors. digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/reports-and-... A couple of reports focusing on digital poverty out soon.

26.11.2024 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
The new wave of university localism – Data analytics

My colleague's @lmicharlie.bsky.social piece on universities and the labour markets they act on - a useful, quick introduction analytics.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2024/11/1...

21.11.2024 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Back :)

13.11.2024 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're interested in how university & college professional services staff use digital tools in their jobs and how they're supported, sign up for our upcoming webinars looking at the results of our annual, national surveys
HE: beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/explo...
FE: beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/explo...

21.11.2023 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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03.11.2023 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 536    πŸ” 271    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 29
University staff are in the digital transformation driving seat, and they need better directions - J...

Pleased to launch the 2022/23 digital experience insights reports for professional services staff in UK universities and colleges.
HE version: repository.jisc.ac.uk/9285/1/DEI-2... (pdf)
FE version: repository.jisc.ac.uk/9284/1/DEI-2... (pdf)
And accompanying blog: beta.jisc.ac.uk/blog/univers...

15.11.2023 09:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to find out more about the digital experience of higher education teaching staff in the UK, there's still time to sign up to today's webinar:
beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/explo...

and for FE:
beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/explo...

02.11.2023 10:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

+1

26.10.2023 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Morning all, the most recent edition of 'What do graduates do?', is out today. It uses official destination data to look at exactly what graduates from different HE subjects did, to help learners with their career choices. And it's free.
What do graduates do? 2023/24 | Luminate (prospects.ac.uk)

24.10.2023 08:43 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Joint BDC/DEI Community of Practice event - Jisc Join us for our eighth joint building digital capability and digital experience insights community of practice event where we’ll be looking at developing digital skills with AI literacy.

If you're responsible for developing the digital environment and the digital capability of students and staff, join us for an event looking at the possibilities for AI to help digital development beta.jisc.ac.uk/events/joint...

23.10.2023 08:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Levels of university staff feeling supported to teach online shows little improvement since the pand... New Jisc report reveals increasingly positive perceptions of digital delivery, but that teaching staff need better support to make the most of technology.

Jisc's latest reports on the digital experience of teaching staff are now out. Increasingly positive perceptions of digital delivery, but teaching staff need better support to make the most of technology beta.jisc.ac.uk/news/all/lev...

17.10.2023 10:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Top Websites of 2000 BBC, Archive, Search Engines, Internet

UK Freebies Sites 4 ever.
The Top Websites of 2000 (BBC) www.bbc.co.uk/archive/topw...

13.10.2023 09:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Community of practice

A few webinars coming up to talk through our upcoming teaching staff and professional services staff digital experience surveys: digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/our-service/...

13.10.2023 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The home page of UKOLN, the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, in December 1996.

The home page of UKOLN, the UK Office for Library and Information Networking, in December 1996.

The home page for JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee, in January 1998.

The home page for JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee, in January 1998.

A couple of skeets of interest to any digital library research historians.

First, the home pages of UKOLN (ukoln.ac.uk) - The UK Office for Library and Information Networking - in 1996, and JISC (jisc.ac.uk) - the Joint Information Systems Committee - in January 1998.

16.06.2023 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Our teaching staff report should be launched next week, watch this space!

12.10.2023 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Both sectors also need to take a look at how many students are receiving skills training for their courses + more generally digital capabilities support.

On the positive side, many satisfied with the continued move back to on-site learning, and happy with the online learning environment in general!

12.10.2023 07:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Some persistent issues around access to suitable tech and wifi/internet issues causing barriers to learning (in both HE and FE).

Quality of online learning materials and lecture recordings ma need improving, as well as general learner/student awareness around their data is collected and used.

12.10.2023 07:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

We launched our student/learner digital experience insights survey results a few weeks ago.

HE: digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/reports-and-...

FE: digitalinsights.jisc.ac.uk/reports-and-...

12.10.2023 07:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Decided it’s time for a professional profile on here :D Haven’t used TwitterX for professional stuff for a long time. Years really. Will give this a go.

11.10.2023 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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