We have made some updates to the JISC Digital Skills Discovery Tool to make selecting your school or department within the university simpler. The Discovery Tool is an interactive questionnaire that identifies your Digital Skills Capability ratings, highlighting strengths, and areas for improvement.  Existing users: We need you to update your Discovery Tool Department!  Follow these easy steps to complete this process:  Open the […]

On Thursday 26th and Friday 27th of February 2026 I have the privilege of attending the COPIM 2026 conference online. Copim is a community of people and organisations who collaborate on community-led and values driven initiatives, which help to support open access authors, publishers and readers. About | Copim I found myself at this conference, […]

This year’s Digifest conference in Birmingham has just wrapped up, and my brain is buzzing with ideas. The 2026 theme, ‘From disruption to direction’, landed exactly where my head has been at lately. As I attend talks and workshops, I tend to map what I’m hearing to the work our team is doing back at […]

I attended the DataFest conference in early May 2025. This year’s theme, “Navigating Data and AI,” felt especially timely as both interest and uncertainty around these tools continue to grow. With speakers like Dr. Daniel Hulme from WPP, Colin Jarvis from OpenAI, and Zoe Kleinman from BBC News, the event explored topics ranging from machine […]

  Digital badges are great for people who earn them, giving them (another) way to evidence something they have achieved. They’re great for the organisations who issue digital badges because digital badges give them a flexible, scalable way to recognise achievements or learning and encourage professional development.   But what about the people who are […]

I attended Connect More 2025 hosted by Jisc and whilst there were many takeaways, the presentation from Oxford University regarding building student digital capabilities at scale was a clear standout. This fantastic session started with a key message that expectation is outpacing enablement.  Our students move with ease between platforms and they expect their digital […]

CMALT stands for Certified Membership of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). It’s a portfolio-based professional accreditation scheme developed by ALT to recognize and validate the experience and capabilities of individuals whose work involves Learning Technology. CMALT holders can use the post-nominal letters “CMALT”. This extract is from  Core area 1: Operational Issues. In this core area: “Candidates should […]

There is a distinct difference between teamwork and collaboration. Teamwork is when a group of individuals work towards a common goal. Collaboration is the process of problem-solving together towards a common solution and relies on the success of the group, rather than the success of individuals. There is a place for both. But in a […]