For many years technology has been transforming education and research, bringing about profound changes to the ways in which learners, teachers, librarians, administrators and researchers undertake their work. JISC campaigns are an attempt to initiate conversations about the issues that are emerging as central to the sector
While the further and higher education sectors have responded quickly and effectively to change, harnessing the potential of technology to support, for example, access to a wide range of online resources, widening participation, more student-centred approaches to learning, innovative, complex and distributed research collaborations, and much more, many challenges remain.
While some of these challenges may be better addressed at the institutional level, others may benefit from broader approaches or from national debates about how ICT can be fully integrated into the life and work of colleges and universities and help ensure that UK education and research remain among the best in the world.
JISC is in the forefront of many of the issues that impact on education and research and JISC ‘campaigns’ are an attempt to initiate conversations – with national organisations and with practitioners, researchers, librarians, senior managers, administrators and others - about the issues that are emerging as central to the sector.
Libraries of the Future campaign
‘Libraries of the Future’ is the first such debate. It attempts to explore the issues around the enormous impact of ICT on the academic library and to look forward to ensure that libraries – however they may continue to evolve - remain at the heart of academic life.
Libraries of the Future campaign
Forthcoming campaigns
Other campaign themes will follow, possibly exploring such issues as ‘student experiences of ICT’, leadership in technology, sustainability, and others. JISC will be exploring these and other possibilities and further information on future campaigns will follow in due course.