Beyond the Technology

Beyond the Technology

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Beyond the Technology episodes

  • What the Edtech?! E3: The research landscape, here and now

    Episode three is all about the changing landscape of research. We hear conversations between Terry Clark, research fellow in performance science at the Royal College of Music, and an honorary research fellow at Imperial College London, and Caroline Ingram, our senior co-design manager. We also chatted to Dr Rachel Bolton-King, lecturer in forensic investigation who shares a fascinating case study from Staffordshire University.

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    58 min
  • What the Edtech?! E2: Creating a successful startup

    Our expert guests in this episode are discussing startups and how great ideas are turned into successful businesses. Sue Attewell, head of change for further education and skills at Jisc, and Atif Mahmood, founder and CEO of edtech startup Teacherly, join our host with bucket loads of tips and advice for any fledgling startup.

    Vivi Friedgut is today's expert practitioner. Her passionate account of how she founded Blackbullion will provide motivation to any startup in need of some inspiration.

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    53 min
  • What the Edtech?! E1: Transforming education through social media engagement

    Welcome to the very first episode of our brand new podcast What the edtech!? In this episode, our host, Laura Kidd, is joined by education consultant and thought leader, Eric Stoller, head of change - student experience, Sarah Knight, and Kardi Somerfield, senior lecturer in digital marketing and advertising at The University of Northampton.

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Our student ideas edtech competiton

    Sue Attewell chats to us about our student ideas competition, which launches next year; from how to work the competition into the curriculum, to what students can gain from entering (from business skills to confidence and everything in-between).

    Together with Emerge Education, we're looking for fresh edtech ideas from students. Winners will receive £2,000 and expert mentoring. The student ideas competition is part of our edtech launchpad.

    Learn more and register your interest

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    13 min
  • Three key ways to build staff digital capabilities and confidence

    Staff digital capabilities are central to student and organisational success. It's a digital world, and in addition to a chosen subject, students are preparing for work and life in a digital society.

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    5 min
  • The push and pull towards new models of publishing

    Within the world of publishing, we are seeing some new trends emerge. Born from a desire to change the current publishing landscape, dominated by a handful of large commercial publishers, there is an increase in new publishing models, being led by universities and academics.

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    5 min
  • The benefits of tech for students' financial literacy

    As the UK population becomes digitally-savvy from an increasingly younger age, it's easy to assume tech take-up is evenly shared across every aspect of our lives.

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    5 min
  • The future of FE: our vision for the next five years

    Can colleges and skills providers become efficient and financially stable, while also providing an excellent learning experience that produces a workforce with the skills required to help the UK economy thrive post-Brexit and beyond?

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    7 min
  • Managing audiovisual research data

    Recently, a number of colleges and universities have asked for advice on how to manage the digital elements (pictures, recordings, etc) of their research data projects. To help answer your questions we've created a new guide to audiovisual research data. It's not just for creative arts research, but advice for any subject area.

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    4 min
  • Are you our next HE social media superstar?

    Our shiny new competition celebrates the excellent social media work being done by sector professionals out there - we're looking for the most innovative ways of social being used to add value to teaching.

    In this podcast Emma chats through her blog all about the #JiscTop10 competition.

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    3 min

About Beyond the Technology

From the publisher's feed

In this podcast we'll hear from members about how they are implementing Education 4.0 technologies including their challenges, successes, and where they had to re-assess.