{"id":2869,"date":"2010-02-25T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:26:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:26:15","slug":"lammy-calls-for-technology-to-enhance-student-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2010\/02\/25\/lammy-calls-for-technology-to-enhance-student-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Lammy calls for technology to enhance student experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

[JISC Press Release]\u00a0<\/p>\n

Senior MPs for higher education called last night for better use of technology to enhance the student experience in a pre-election debate at the Royal Geographical Society.<\/p>\n

David Lammy, the minister of state for higher education and intellectual property, David Willetts, Conservative shadow universities secretary, and Stephen Williams, their Liberal Democrat counterpart, all identified the student experience as a major factor in the competitiveness of UK higher education in the 21st<\/sup> century in the THE-hosted event.<\/p>\n

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Lammy said, \u201cStudents are all on Facebook, Twitter, Bebo, i-Phones and i-Pads for their social life and their university experience is still divorced from that [\u2026]\u00a0 Universities have to be advancing technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Their answers addressed the motion \u2018Teaching and research in UK universities are among the best in the world.\u00a0 How will the next government maintain our leading edge?\u2019<\/p>\n

Lammy commented, \u201cAt Microsoft in Seattle I asked which university in the world is the best university at using technology for the benefit of the student experience.\u00a0 Microsoft said: \u2018There isn\u2019t one.\u2019 There are certainly faculties that are good, but that has not yet really taken place right across the university and student experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

JISC Executive secretary Dr Malcolm Read says, \u201cTechnology is not meant to replace face-to-face time between students or with their tutors.\u00a0 Where it can really add value to that experience is by providing exciting learning and assessment opportunities, innovative ways of finding out about a new town or campus, or a different way of building the community of students.\u00a0 As universities strive to stay ahead of trends in what students want, JISC acts as a test bed for this digital innovation and provides best practice examples for institutions looking to make better use of technology.\u201d<\/p>\n

The MPs also discussed cloud computing<\/a> and administration services<\/a> as other ways in which universities could look to improve their offer through the use of digital technologies, two areas that JISC is currently investing in.<\/p>\n

Stephen Williams said, \u201cStudents are entitled to be well-informed so we want to open up every single item of information and make far more imaginative use of the net.\u00a0 We need more models which enable prospective students to access current students.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

JISC\u2019s student retention and motivation work is prioritising this induction process \u2013 for example through TAG, a project that aims to explore the impact of a dynamic, interactive, web based platform where potential students can interact with the universities to which they are applying and develop realistic expectations of HE will have on retention.<\/p>\n

David Willetts concluded, \u201cThere are finance pressures out there but the main thing is to make sure that the student experience and access to student loans remains unharmed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[JISC Press Release]\u00a0 Senior MPs for higher education called last night for better use of technology to enhance the student experience in a pre-election debate at the Royal Geographical Society. David Lammy, the minister of state for higher education and intellectual property, David Willetts, Conservative shadow universities secretary, and Stephen Williams, their Liberal Democrat counterpart,Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,82,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-jisc","category-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}