This study, prepared by Mindset Research, has looked at activities and developments in the fields of e-Learning and e-Infrastructure supporting the higher education and research sectors in ten countries across the world: Australia; Canada; Denmark; Germany; Korea; Japan; the Netherlands; New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. This report attempts to offer a...

Report of an independent Committee of Inquiry into the impact on higher education of students' widespread use of Web 2.0 technologies. Today's learners exist in a digital age. This implies access to, and use of, a range of Social Web tools and software that provide gateways to a multiplicity of interactive resources for information, entertainment...

New research conducted by Ipsos MORI on behalf of JISC demonstrates that the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) expectations of incoming students are often met, and sometimes exceeded. Overall, higher education institutions (HEIs) are perceived as providing a basic level of ICT to a good standard. However, the research identifies that although students (and academics)...

This study was commissioned by the British Library and the Joint Information Systems Committee to identify how the specialist researchers of the future, currently in their school or pre-school years, are likely to access and interact with digital resources in five to ten years' time. This is to help library and information services to anticipate...