The last ten years have taught us that virtual learning environments are here to stay. But are universities getting the VLE right? And why is it so important?
Topic: Bloom VLE, Higher Education
It's the 50th anniversary of your business. You want to share a photograph of the founders on their first day of work in the internal newsletter. You ask the CEO whether she can fish through her loft to find the original. She only has a copy of...
Topic: Marketing, Advertising and PR, Digital Preservation, IT and Digital
Yesterday, London experienced record heats with temperatures as high as 33 degrees, but that didn’t stop 1782 of London’s graduates from descending upon Senate House to meet 65 exhibitors at our summer London Graduate Fair. We run this event...
Topic: Fairs and Events, Recruitment
Unpaid internships are common, and recently companies have been publicly attacked for advertising unpaid job positions in the UK. We ask: are unpaid internships actually legal?
Topic: Recruitment
In this post I want to discuss “critical thinking” in the context of the Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) and the new DPTP Online 2017.
Topic: Digital Preservation
In this post I will describe some of the highlights in my work building the DPTP Online, things I had to consider to make it engaging, and what I hoped to achieve with it.
Topic: Digital Preservation, Higher Education
As Ed Pinsent has already mentioned in his post, developing our online training was driven by wanting to use technology effectively, and was informed by our recent training needs survey.
Topic: Digital Preservation
This election run up has been contentious to say the least. We are on the brink of having to choose between two dramatically different visions of the country.
Topic: Higher Education
DPTP Online 2017 is a series of 14 modular courses which deliver a beginner’s guide to digital preservation. It is intended for complete beginners in this field and aims to introduce learners to the concepts, terms, language, and practices of...
Topic: Digital Preservation
At the University of London, a lot of us are going through our very own digital transformation, so I thought I would share with you the processes and changes needed to implement such a huge scale project.
