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Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen – Weeknote #368 – 20th March 2026

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Nyhavn, Copenhagen

This week was a slightly shorter week, as I took a day off and did another crazy extreme day out, this time to Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. I have been there before back in July 2004 staying with family. I am anticipating that future extreme day trips will be curtailed, as they become more expensive due to the spike in jet fuel prices. Though I recently did see one to Palma for £40. Hmmm…

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So, what about work then?

Well at one point I was planning to attend a meeting in Helsinki in Finland, but this was cancelled last week. I also didn’t attend the UCISA Leadership Summit that was taking place in Liverpool this week. Mainly, as it clashed with the potential visit to Helsinki, but also as I found two years ago in Edinburgh that the sessions in the conference had less applicability and reference to the work I am doing.

I did a presentation to my team on my work and how it was coming together. It was useful to actually build a slide deck that told the story of the different forks of my work and how they have now come together. I always thought they would at some point, but wasn’t planning for it to be this year.

I also did some preparation for next week where I am presenting at the HESCA (Higher Education Smart Campus Association) conference in Oxford, looking at collaboration and what this means for the future.

I had an excellent discussion with a colleague who works in the part of Jisc that does HEDD and Prospects and how the work I am doing on the EHEIF (European Higher Education Interoperability Framework) is aligned. The process of qualification verification is something that HEDD has been doing for years, whilst Prospects provides a discovery services for post graduate courses, core aspects of the student journey in the EHEIF. This discussion is one of many I am having as start to understand where the UK is currently standing in the EHEFI landscape, where Jisc is in that same landscape, what this could mean for LLE (Lifelong Learning Entitlement), the data requirements, and where are the gaps and what are the potential opportunities.

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I did write a post about conference connections.

One of the nice things about attending any in person conference is connecting and reconnecting with people and friends.

I discuss how sometimes you lose that connection in an online space that you find in a physical in-person conference.

It had been a draft for a while, but I did get around to finishing it. I have been attempting to write more blog posts for this blog, as I was finding that though I was good at getting my weekly work notes out, I was writing less and less other kinds of posts. 

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Reflecting on podcasting – Weeknote #324 – 16th May 2025

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This week I chaired two session at Jisc’s Connect More event, one on emerging technologies and the other on podcasting.

The podcasting session was delivered by Mark Childs from Durham with support with a recorded segment by Puiyin Wong from Birmingham.

The initial discussion before the presentation made me go back and look at when I started publishing my elearning stuff podcast. This was back in March 2008. I discovered podcasting when a webpage I had created about wireless zero configuration was discussed as part of an US radio tech podcast. The host of that show had a range of podcasts, and I started listening to them. Reminded me of the complexity of my original podcast workflow from 2011.

The other session I chaired at Connect More was about emerging technologies. I was reminded that emerging technologies are always emerging. The challenge that the sector faces isn’t necessarily about understanding which technologies are emerging, but how institutions can set the foundations to more quickly and easily take advantages of the affordances of emerging technologies.

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Did some quick and dirty research into the LLE for an internal colleague in Jisc. The Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) will transform the post-18 student finance system to create a single funding system. An overview of LLE from UK Government.

This has implications for student mobility across the UK as students will be able to move and transfer between institutions. Also students will be able to take a single module or part of a course. In addition the government are expecting new and smaller providers to deliver a range of level 4 and 5 programmes.

Spent time working on the UUK Collaboration project, in the main researching, developing writing business case 3.

I was in Bristol for our Lead at Jisc Celebration, a leadership programme I completed this year.

Had an internal meeting to discuss future plans for the collaboration work.

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You’ve got mail – Weeknote #313 – 28th February 2025

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Quite a busy week as a couple of people threw a lot of stuff into my in-tray. Writing this reminded of how when I first started working as a lecturer in Further Education, I had a pigeonhole for communicating. People would put stuff in there. A lot of the time the stuff was memos with a series of names on. Once read, you would cross out your name, replaced in the reuseable envelope and put the next person’s name on it. Of course usually there was one person who would never read the memos and their pigeonhole would be stuffed with stuff they hadn’t read.

Sometimes I think email is very much like that…

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The Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) will transform the post-18 student finance system to create a single funding system. I read this new overview of LLE from the UK Government. The Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE) will transform the post-18 student finance system to create a single funding system. It will replace higher education student finance loans and Advanced Learner Loans.

The LLE will deliver transformational change to the current student finance system by:

  • broadening access to high-quality, flexible education and training
  • supporting greater learner mobility between institutions

This has implications for student mobility across the UK as students will be able to move and transfer between institutions. Also students will be able to take a single module or part of a course. In addition the government are expecting new and smaller providers to deliver a range of level 4 and 5 programmes.

Of course the funding is only part of the picture if this is going to happen.

Had various meetings about Jisc’s presence at the Digital University UK (DUUK) Conference happening at the University of Lancaster. I might be going, but it does clash with another meeting I need to attend at the University of Warwick. Looked over Google Maps if travelling between them was even feasible.

Had an internal catch up meeting on digital leadership and sharing what I have been doing. I don’t do much with digital leadership these days, but with my work on collaboration there is potentially some work to do on leadership for collaboration.

Continued to work on the collaboration project we are doing with UUK. This work is looking at possible opportunities and narrowing them down to some realistic and potential opportunities.

I reviewed the work we have been doing for the Education in NREN work. We have been writing stories to explain the student journey. I also reviewed a potential submission for TNC in Brighton.

I am now attending Digifest on the 11th and 12th March. Come and say hi if you’re there. I have had to miss Digifest last year as I was attending another event which was on at the same time.

I also spent time this week responding to various requests to speak at events.