CASE STUDY: Manchester Metropolitan University’s integration between institutional and personal learning environments
Manchester Metropolitan’s VLE has approximately 40,000 users and receives 50 million hits a year, so it is vital that it offers a rock-solid service and upgrades are handled with minimum disruption to students and staff. A major review of the University’s learning technology concluded that it should migrate from an in-house Blackboard WebCT system to […]
Guest Blog, Sam Blyth: Ensuring the success of GB Plc – the pivotal role of Further Education…
It isn’t an easy time to work in further education (FE). Operating in a large and multi-faceted environment, FE leaders are tasked with delivering the most diverse curricula to the most diverse student audiences. And while they’re often overlooked by the media, who focus squarely on schools and universities, many agree that FE teachers play […]
Universities failing to prepare graduates for the world of work, new research suggests…
Canvas, the global virtual learning environment (VLE) for academic institutions and companies, has revealed as part of its recent study that just 30 per cent of current undergraduates believe they are getting their money’s worth from their degree course, and with the certainty of tuition fees set to rise again by next year, the figure falls to 21 per cent among sixth formers who […]