Dr Paul Catherall reflects on how the University of Liverpool expanded library services for learners studying online, overseas and at a distance, creating more equitable access to support and resources through collaboration and cross-departmental working
Last week I attended Demonstrating digital transformation – Future Ready: empowering people to drive impactful digital change, a collaborative event hosted by the University of Southampton and Jisc. A question worth asking The theme of the day was that successful digital transformation depends as much on people, capability and culture as it does on technology. This echoes the […]
In this Adobe Express blog, Debbie Baff reflects on her experience attending the latest Jisc Student Experience Experts Group meeting in Bristol. Her write-up captures some of the key themes, discussions and examples of practice shared by practitioners, researchers and sector leaders, including conversations around pre-arrival support, transnational education, learning design and AI. It also […]
Digital vision sets direction but on its own, it isn’t enough High level strategic goals are where digital vision begins to turn into action In our last blog we explored how the first step for digital leaders is to establish a clear digital vision: a shared view of the future digital experience and how it […]
On Day 1 at Digifest, we gathered a group of senior leaders and practitioners together to consider the question, “What’s digital transformation for?” We started by sharing a definition of digital transformation that we use regularly at Jisc: “Digital transformation is a series of deep and coordinated culture, workforce, and technology shifts that enable new […]
Digifest is always a little bit of a whirlwind. A couple of days surrounded by people who care deeply about education, technology and what the future of the sector might look like. Conversations between sessions, ideas scribbled on sticky notes, coffee-fuelled debates about artificial intelligence, infrastructure, pedagogy and everything in between. This year I attended […]
Collaborating early to define a shared digital future Introduction In our last blog, learning from digital leaders, we talked about how digital leaders across the post‑16 education sector are collaborating with colleagues to shape their digital strategies, and the benefits that come with involving people early. In this blog we look at how digital leaders […]
A redesigned Digital Leaders Programme now offers more choice and flexibility, with modular pathways and a new Reflect and Apply route to suit different roles, challenges and capacity.
Collaboration: the key to developing digital strategy Introduction “Taking the temperature” is a familiar phrase for reassessing our understanding of customer needs or how they approach specific tasks. In that spirit, we recently held a short series of focus groups with digital leaders. We wanted to better understand how they approach developing their organisation’s digital […]
Last January, I delivered a lightning talk at Data Matters 2025 with Michelle Scott from The Data Lab on building a data-informed organisation. We were speaking to data specialists, helping them to consider how to successfully engage other leaders, but in many ways, it was half of the conversation. Non-data specialist leaders are also keen […]