Jisc Digital Festival

Increasing the offer to FE: new digital content services and projects from Jisc

E-books for FE

• Over 3,000 e-books (inc. 200 core titles), chosen by FE librarians, licensed by Jisc Collections on the ebrary platform.

• Completely free to use by every FE institution in the UK.

• 24/7 unlimited usage, on campus or from home.• Training, support and promotion provided.• AQA/AS texts, BTEC, NVQ, CACHE, and more.• Collection refreshed every year, keeping it up-to-

date and relevant to changing curriculums.

E-books for FE

• Over 400 colleges using the e-books. Uptake continues to grow.

• Usage is high: over 45 million pages viewed.• Average cost per page viewed = 0.04p• Overall savings of £42 million.• Now firmly embedded in teaching and learning in

FE.• Project enters a new phase in September 2014:

overhauling collection, concentrating on well-used, key texts.

EDINA in the FE

sector:

• Direct access to a range of digital Ordnance Survey maps for all of GB

• Incredible building footprint detail plus digital versions of OS Landranger and Explorer maps

• Customise maps with your own information – labels, pin markers, photos, graphs

• Measure distances, areas, buffer points and lines

• Print any number of A4 and A3 maps with or without your annotations

September

2014

Jisc MediaHub: free to FE since Aug 2013

JorumJorum is a shared service for

discovering open educational

resources that can be used in

teaching and learning. Enabling

the community to share

resources under open licences.

mimas.ac.uk

• a showcase for institutions to demonstrate world class teaching materials; and to demonstrate a commitment to enhancing learning and teaching

• significant effectiveness and efficiency for the whole sector by fostering the reuse and remixing of its growing collection of OER.

Jorum – FE ContentJisc FE and skills development and

resources programme content available

in Jorum

Search for #FESKILLS

atJorum.ac.uk

For more information contact Nigel

Ecclesfield n.ecclesfield@jisc.ac.uk, Head

of change implementation support

programmes - further education and

skills - Jisc .

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Jorum – The College Development Network's

resource-sharing siteJorum is a strategic tool, supported nationally by Jisc, to enable efficiencies across the Further and Higher Education sectors.

The new FE and Skills Window project, run by To provide teaching practitioners within the Further Education

and Skills sector with simple, flexible and easy to navigate routes

to Jisc digital content, such as...

that is directly relevant to their curriculum, qualifications and

working practices.

The new FE and Skills Window project, run by

“From my experience as an FE advisor

for a Jisc RSC I know that when

providing content to FE practitioners it

needs to be organised by their

teaching subject and level...by

providing content mapped to FE

curriculum should reduce the current

minefield of content available to the

sector".  

Judy Bloxham, Jisc RSC FE Advisor

How?- Developing a Jorum Window onto FE

content- By asking the community what they

need- Developing tools based on needs e.g. Moodle plugins- Learning from successful services – e.g. those services mapped to curriculum have very high usage

#MimasFESkills

Hairdressing Training

www.hairdressing.ac.uk-Over 30,000 average visitor a month-Over 50,000 videos views a month-Mapped to the NVQ

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“Hairdressing Training is an integral part of our

teaching. It is used every lesson and the

students love it. We use the new videos the

most - the Hairdressing Moodle site, of which

HT is a central component, is held up around

City College as the best Moodle site for

teachers”. Tutor at the Manchester College.

Hairdressing

TrainingThe new mobile App

-Developed in collaboration with

students and tutors, with feedback

throughout the development

-Available in the Spring 2014 on

Apple and Android devices

- Hairdressing Training was

originally the first ever Jisc funded

service to be available on a mobile

in 2003

- Talk to us if you’re interested in

using Augmented Reality with your

students

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Digital Student Project

Jisc Digital Student http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org.uk

• Digital Student phase 1 study conducted a review into students’ expectations and experiences of the digital environment at university

• The study reviewed existing research and survey evidence from institutions, as well as conducting original interviews and focus groups

• Jisc and its co-design partners (UCISA, SCONUL, RLUK and RUGIT) are now supporting a consultation phase across the higher education sector which will inform the final guidance to institutions and further actions by Jisc and its partners

• A parallel study in FE and Skills with similar consultation events will shortly get underway

• Review of current practice in secondary schools is also underway• Find out more at http://digitalstudent.jiscinvolve.org #digitalstudent

Ben Taplin b.taplin@jisc.ac.uk Talk to me about e-books for FE or Jisc Collections

Laura Skilton Laura.skilton@Manchester.ac.uk Mark Power Mark.power@Manchester.ac.ukTalk to us about the new FE and Skills Window project, Jorum, Augmented Reality, Hairdressing Training or Mimas

Anne Robertson a.m.robertson@ed.ac.ukConnor Smyth conor.smyth@ed.ac.uk Talk to us about Digimap for Colleges or EDINA