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Register now for SEDA accredited Jisc Institutional Change Leader award

Our second pilot of the SEDA accredited Jisc Institutional Change Leader award starts on on Monday 19 October 2015 for 5 months. This free CANLearn course is part of Jisc’s Change Agents’ Network, a network of staff and students working in partnership to support curriculum enhancement and innovation with technology. About the course The course […]

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Third Change Agents’ Network case study: University of Nottingham

On behalf of Clare Killen: The third Change Agents’ Network case study is now available under the resources menu above.   ‘How students are making a difference – Students as Change Agents scheme’ was introduced during the 2014-5 academic year to increase levels of student engagement and empower students to make a difference to teaching and […]

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Helping us plan the future of the Change Agents’ Network

In order to help us in planning the future of the Change Agents’ Network (CAN), we would be grateful if you could help us with some feedback on whether you are using, and if so, benefiting from the various CAN activities and resources. These include the CAN networking events and webinars, advice and guidance, the […]

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Sharing best practice and stealing ideas – student staff partnership working

I have been very fortunate over the past week to have attended a number of events run by colleges and universities where the theme of student –staff partnership working has been the focus. This in itself is an interesting development and shows the growing awareness of how important it is to engage students in the […]

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Highlights from a new student (staff) group London Digital Student Meet-up (LDSM) co-organised by LSE and UCL

Guest post by Moira Wright, Digital Literacy Officer,E-Learning Environments, UCL Digital literacy: student (staff) partnership working  (Podcast about the event: Here) Highlights from a new student (staff) group London Digital Student Meet-up (LDSM) co-organised by LSE and UCL it aimed to provide a platform for student networking. LDSM is open to all students working on […]

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The Change Agents’ Network at the sparqs national conference in Edinburgh

This is a short blog post to recount my experience of running a workshop on the Change Agents’ Network at the sparqs national conference in Edinburgh on Friday 29 May in conjunction with Simon Walker (University of Greenwich) and Mark Kerrigan (Anglia Ruskin University). Interestingly, we heard that sparqs (student participation in quality Scotland) is […]

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“Mission Employable” – students driving change in developing student employability at the University of Southampton

I read with fascination a case study recently published in the Change Agents’ Network Journal of educational innovation, partnership and change entitled ‘Mission Employable’: Creating a student-led employability strategy for the Faculty of Humanities, University of Southampton. The case study exemplifies an effective faculty-based approach to students driving change in pursuit of enhancing student employability […]

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Updating the Jisc Student Partnership Toolkit – message from Clare Killen

Peter Chatterton and I are working with colleagues at Jisc to update the Student partnership toolkit to reflect current practice in student partnership initiatives which involve technology. The toolkit has been developed by the Jisc Change Agents’ Network. As part of the review process we would like to hear from anyone who has used any […]

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Register for 30 June webinar Plus … recording, presentation and chat from 13/5 webinar available

Registration is now open for the lunchtime webinar on 30 June at 12:30; ‘Mission Employable – Student-led employability activity’ with a presentation and discussion from Dr. Eleanor Quince, from the University of Southampton. For the recording, presentations and chat of the webinar on 13/5, please go to the Webinar recordings page .

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Registration for 13 May (12:30-1:30) webinar now open

Please join us on 13 May at 12:30 for the next webinar, with presentations by Deborah Millar, Head of eLearning, Blackburn College, on ‘DigiPals – Changing the Learning Landscape project’ followed by Peter Chatterton and Clare Killen’s overview of the Jisc Student Engagement Toolkit, a valuable resource for those working in the field. To register: […]