In this episode of our further education and skills (FE) podcasts, hosts Louisa Stamatelopoulos and Andrew McFadyen chat to Beth Snowden from Craven College. Throughout this series Andrew and Louisa are joined by experts from further education colleges to shine a light on how they support digital development through the use of our tools, such as the digital elevation tool, building digital capability service and digital experience insights surveys.

Beth begins the discussion by sharing details of her dual operational and strategic role at the college, from investigating licenses to co-writing the digital learning strategy, as well as the scale and scope of Craven College.

The conversation then turns to the college’s focus on embedding digital further into the staff development system, and how their recently launched digital learning strategy has been instrumental in the developments and decisions that are being made.

Beth highlights the success of the college’s first ever staff development day on digital CPD, with 300 members of staff participating in workshops and even learning to fly drones.

Listen to the full episode to also hear about Beth’s experiences of Jisc’s digital experience insights survey, learning from the digital accessibility community, and tips on getting started with AI.

Show notes

• Visit Craven College’s website
• View Beth’s LinkedIn page
• Learn more about the college’s commercial training division, Tyro Training
• Read about Evolve, Craven College’s small college in the centre of Ripon and take a ThingLink tour
• Access the Aviation Academy, based at Leeds Bradford Airport
• Watch a 360 tour of Craven Arena, home to Craven Equine
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In this episode of the Beyond the Technology podcast, Jisc’s Chris Thomson is joined by Dr Miriam Firth from the University of Manchester. They discuss the work Miriam has been doing with the QAA, and colleagues across a number of other HE institutions, to examine practices of optionality in assessment.

During the episode, Miri dives into the rationale for the research project, what they discovered and what lessons can be learned for assessment designers.

Show notes

• Find out more about the optionality in assessment project
• Review the Jisc guidance on the Principles of Good Assessment and Feedback
• Listen to the creative approaches to assessment in media and communications podcast