Students and higher education staff from across the UK have teamed up to imagine a screenless student experience as part of Jisc’s edtech challenge. The winner – VLE of the Future The winning idea from a University of Glasgow team uses the “memory palace” technique to create an immersive environment that aids learning. The vision is for an interactive, collaborative space […]
Rev up your startup
Enter our 2019 edtech startups competition and get your fledgling business on track Read our latest blog on how to enter this years competition and hear from two of last years winners Volo and Synap You have until 17:00 on Monday 21 January to make your pitch to us. We’re offering five businesses mentorships worth up to £10,000 from ourselves, Emerge Education and other industry […]
Inspire us with your ideas for a next-generation virtual learning environment in our first edtech challenge of 2019. Read about our current edtech challenge and and hear from previous competitors how easy it is to take part. We’ve deliberately made the ideas challenges very easy for everyone to enter, whether they’re technologically minded or not, because we want to see what’s on students’ minds. https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/where-will-your-good-ideas-take-you-20-dec-2018 […]
We have just launched a challenge competition for ideas around what a (virtual) learning environment without a screen might look like, by the this I mean it that allows you in access and interact with learning through other methods as well as or instead of a screen. The challenge page suggests some technologies that may […]
A guest post from Tripti Maheshwari, Co-Founder,Student Circus Ltd After the incredible product workshop in July, it was time for the most awaited day of the Jisc Edtech Startup Programme – sales day! Day 3: A usual start to the day at EdSpace with coffee, croissants and conversations. With the room full of Jisc staff and […]
Well we had a great week in Birmingham. It was an intoxicating week with lots of enthusiasm and great ideas from the students. One of our student teams ‘App to the Future’ completed a vlog over the week have a look and see inside from their point of view. Thanks Brad, Jake and Luke. All of the […]
Student Design Sprint and Hackathon
I am looking forward to welcoming 12 teams of students to Aston Conference Centre in August for five days ed tech fun and some series design and development. This is my 6th year of running student ed tech activity over the summer, we started the Summer of Student Innovation in 2013, each year it has […]
An insider view from Volo – 2018 cohort
A guest post from Lotis Bautista Co-founder and Chief Community Officer, Volo Group Mid-way through April we were ecstatic to find ourselves as one of five companies to win a place on the Jisc Edtech Startup Programme. Fast-forward to the start of the programme in May and it has already proven itself to be a […]
As part of our edtech launchpad programme we are looking for student teams from universities and colleges across the UK to join us in building the campus of the future. The aim of the hackathon is for student teams to design, develop and build “something” that would benefit students in the world that is the […]
We ran the competition and announced the winners, and now its time to get down to the hard work. Our 2018 programme kicks-off on Thursday 24th May and I’m excited and looking forward to working with our winners: Blackbullion – a learning platform for students to get control of their money. Oslr – an app to facilitate […]