JISC have announced a programme to fund student projects over the summer. They're calling it the Summer of Student Innovation and they are looking for projects that will use technology to improve student life Students can pitch their ideas on the web site and the selected projects will get £5,000 to transfer the ideas into prototypes.
This seems a neat idea and we have an example at Edinburgh of how this can work. Last summer, two students from the School of Maths built a web application to help students choose the course modules most appropriate to them, taking into account their results in the previous year as well as their interests. We are funding them for a year to develop this into a fully supported university system.
It will be interesting to see what results are produced by the new JISC initiative.
http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/
This seems a neat idea and we have an example at Edinburgh of how this can work. Last summer, two students from the School of Maths built a web application to help students choose the course modules most appropriate to them, taking into account their results in the previous year as well as their interests. We are funding them for a year to develop this into a fully supported university system.
It will be interesting to see what results are produced by the new JISC initiative.
http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/
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