Portland College: Mobile tech boosts student progression

Mobile and video technologies are being used to boost the confidence and employability of students with disabilities at Portland College - an independent specialist college for students aged 16 to 25, it provides educational opportunities and fosters independent living skills for students with physical or learning disabilities.

Student Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: North Lindsey College

Student Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: North Lindsey College describing their experiences of being involved in the Jisc Pilot.

Student Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: Case study: Barton Peverill Sixth Form College

Student Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: Case study: Barton Peverill Sixth Form College describing their experiences of the tracker pilot.

Student Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: Royal National College for the Blind

Student Digital Experience Tracker Case Study: Royal National College for the Blind describing their experience of the Tracker pilot.

Priestley College: How do you successfully develop your new learning space? ...ask your students, of course!

When Priestley College began to plan the redevelopment of its learning resource centre, it continued the culture of student involvement that exists within the College by asking students to help plan and create the new development. This case study describes how the Jisc infoKit on 'Planning and Designing Technology-Rich Learning Spaces' was used as the starting point for ideas and planning, and how the finished development was the recognisable result of students' ideas and plans.

Xaverian College: Seeing the long term benefit of personalised learning with bespoke VLE

Xaverian College has created a bespoke web-based solution for the academic, pastoral, managerial and administrative requirements of the College that is accessible to all staff and students. Their VLE/ILP intranet system is cutting edge as it offers a remarkable degree of integration because of its holistic approach and is very ‘student-friendly’.

South Essex College: Learner voice - a 360-degree approach

South Essex College has developed a college intranet called C_Space. This has grown from a handful of HTML pages to an intranet hosting 70 in-house developed applications and two million staff and student-generated pages. In the past three years, the College has developed a range of social networking tools within the site to engage students. This has provided a 360-degree appraisal system for the College, which has informed the content and design of the intranet, as well as influenced the overall development of the College.

Lowestoft College - Riding the waves of change: How mobile learning has guided learners through rough seas

Over the past six years Lowestoft College has embraced the revolution in mobile learning by welcoming Web 2.0, social media, cloud computing and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). This open attitude to new technologies has led to a marked improvement in student achievement rates, has increased staff and student satisfaction and has resulted in a variety of cost savings for senior management during the current economic downturn.

Case study: Creating a culture shift at Blackburn College

Case study on how three projects at Blackburn College are helping students and staff to engage with digital technologies and enhance learning and teaching and the broader student digital experience.

Case study: Transforming the student voice process

Case study on how Pembrokeshire College is using a digital tool and methodology called VocalEyes to support democratic decision-making and improve learner involvement and satisfaction.

Case study: Building a powerful partnership empowering the student community

Case study on two initiatives at Leeds City College to enhance the student digital experience and develop leadership skills, competencies and experience that will prepare student for future study and employment.

Case study: Encouraging use of mobile devices at East Berkshire College

Case study about East Berkshire College and how they are encouraging the use of mobile devices to empower student learning and prepare students for the workplace.

Priestley College: Choose the right platform

Priestley College has found a robust, easy to implement way to manage resources and student work so that it can all be found quickly and easily, wherever staff and students want to access it.

Student digital experience tracker 2016: results from the pilot project

Building on funded work on the experiences of today’s digital students http://bit.ly/jiscdigistudent (2014-2015) and feedback from stakeholders, Jisc piloted a tracker tool with 24 education providers in Higher education (HE) and Further Education (FE) and skills. The aim of the tracker is to provide a snapshot of learners’ digital experiences at a training provider, college or university so that education providers can better understand this aspect of the learning experience. This survey report highlights key findings from the tracker pilot.