Sir William Siemens Challenge

Calling all engineering students! Digital prodigy? Mechanically minded? Team up with multi-talented engineers and explore your potential. Siemens, the world-leading engineering brand, is inviting you to join MindSphere Live!, a powerful experience and the premise of the annual Sir William Siemens Challenge – the student engineering event of the year. Date: 16 – 18 November, 2018 … Continue reading “Sir William Siemens Challenge”

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Social Media Aggregator Evaluation

Social media touches nearly every aspect of our personal and business lives. It is changing the ways of how people communicate and how information is flowing. Organizations are using social media networks more and more as their communication channels and public engagement tools. It becomes more urgent for organizations to effectively manage and use the … Continue reading “Social Media Aggregator Evaluation”

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform

What are Content Collaboration Platforms? As defined by Gartner, the content collaboration platform (CCP) market covers a range of products and services that enable content productivity and collaboration. CCPs are aimed at individuals and teams, inside or outside an organization. Additionally, CCPs increasingly support lightweight content management and workflow use cases. Core user functionalities include: … Continue reading “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Content Collaboration Platform”

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JISC Hackathon – building a chatbot in further and higher education

Chatbots are already employed by lots of companies to front conversations on smartphones and other computing devices. Live chat options are emerging on many websites, including at universities, and some have reported that a significant number of clearing enquiries came through live chat rather than telephone calls during August. A recent survey conducted by Jisc … Continue reading “JISC Hackathon – building a chatbot in further and higher education”

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How will universities be digitally transforming?

Digital Transformation is the application of digital technology across the University and is critical to our future success as an institution. Digital Transformation at the University is about more than just technology. The goal is to adopt new ways of working in order to continue delivering our mission in the face of changing technology, competition, audience … Continue reading “How will universities be digitally transforming?”

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Future Trends in Technology and Education

Future Trends in Technology and Education is a monthly report.  It surveys recent developments in how education is changing, primarily under the impact of digital technologies.  Its purpose is to help educators, policy-makers, and the public think about the future of teaching, learning, research, and institutions. You can find its website here: https://ftte.us/ . Read … Continue reading “Future Trends in Technology and Education”

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How we use Slack

Recently, Slack won the office messaging wars. Slack will pay an undisclosed amount over the next three years to acquire Atlassian’s HipChat and Stride assets,  Atlassian said it will discontinue the two products by Feb. 15, 2019, and exit the communications business. Have you ever heard of Slack? Slack is a collaboration hub that connects … Continue reading “How we use Slack”

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Innovation Centre: An audience with Dr Umar Daraz – a talk on innovation from Birmingham City University

You’re invited! Join us for an informal talk about innovation and the commercialisation of prototypes  The IT Innovation Centre would like to invite all staff across IT Services to attend an informal talk delivered by Dr Umar Daraz, Director of the Institute of Sustainable Futures at Birmingham City University (BCU). Dr Daraz will be speaking … Continue reading “Innovation Centre: An audience with Dr Umar Daraz – a talk on innovation from Birmingham City University”

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Serverless Computing

Serverless architectures are internet based systems where the application development does not use the usual server process. Instead they rely solely on a combination of third-party services, client-side logic, and service hosted remote procedure calls (FaaS). Serverless applications often make extensive use of third party services to accomplish tasks that are traditionally taken care of by servers. … Continue reading “Serverless Computing”

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IT Innovation Centre: Come and meet us in our new location – drop-in

IT Innovation Centre: Come and meet us in our new location – drop-in session Thursday 28 June You’re invited! Find out where the heart of Innovation within IT Services is located at our open afternoon on Thursday 28 June The IT Innovation Centre moved to a new location within the ERI Building last week. Although … Continue reading “IT Innovation Centre: Come and meet us in our new location – drop-in”

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