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Trends and Activities As part of our ‘Future of Resources’ session at Talis Insight 2022, we looked at the creation of resources and how this might be impacted in the next 10 years as a result of world, technology and sector trends. We defined creation as: ‘the generation of resources e.g. literature, music, software in whatever format, print or digital for consumption whether paid for or free’.

Welcome, Matthew! Tell us about your new role? I’ve recently joined Talis as EdTech Success Consultant. In this role, I’m focused on working with Talis Elevate users across institutions, providing pedagogic support to ensure staff and students get the most out of Elevate. What does your typical day look like?

Designing and Delivering the Workshop Learning resources – whether they come in the form of books, articles, slides, images or video/audio content – have always played an essential role within the teaching and learning process. It is a role that is always evolving, driven by external technological, cultural, economic or societal trends.

The Teach Learn Collaborate Repeat podcast is a teaching and learning podcast hosted by Talis. We’ll be talking teaching and tech with experts from across higher education. In this episode, Matt East from Talis talks to Samantha Sharman, a Classical Studies BA student from the University of Lincoln, about their joint research project exploring student perspectives on reading lists.

As we start to approach the summer, we would like to celebrate all the wonderful things academics and students have been doing using Talis Elevate this academic year – and look back on the product development Talis made to improve and enhance the academic and student experience when using Talis Elevate. Student and academic activity Over the last year, academics, like yourselves, have created spaces for nearly 100,000 students to learn, collaborate, and find their voice using Talis Elevate.

Have you ever wondered how another university is using Talis Aspire? What types of problems are they solving using the system? How are they engaging academics? This is the simple premise behind our newly formed APAC Community Discussion sessions. Earlier this year, Talis ran its annual Insight Asia-Pacific event online. The last session of the event was run by our Talis Aspire User Group representatives who facilitated an open discussion on the ways in which users utilise Talis Aspire.

We’ve recently launched our Teach Learn Collaborate Repeat Pedagogy Panel to help our Talis Elevate community share their advice and best practice with others from across the sector. We’ve been lucky to be joined by academics from across institutions and disciplines, and every one of our panellists have used Elevate in their own unique way. It’s been truly inspiring to share the successes of these users. We want to continue to share these successes in as many ways as we can.

Held over two days in February, Talis Insight APAC 2023 was a fully online event featuring presentations from a range of speakers on a variety of different Higher Education topics. If you were unable to attend Talis Insight APAC 2023, recordings of most of these sessions are now accessible via the event website. Day 1 The event kicked off with a keynote presented by Nicola Langford, International Sales Director at Technology from SAGE.

We’ve seen so many successful uses of Talis Elevate in learning and teaching, and we’re always looking to share those accomplishments. That’s why we’ve launched a new monthly discussion series, the TLCR Pedagogy Panel, where Talis Elevate users and academics using Talis Elevate with SAGE Catalyst books are invited to join us and share how they’ve used social annotation, the steps they’ve taken to ensure their success, and any reflections they have on the process as a whole.

Back in Feb 2013 I attended my first Talis Aspire User Group at the University of Kent, we had recently adopted Talis Aspire at the University of Leicester, and this was my first opportunity to meet the team behind the product and other fellow users. I was struck straight away by the friendliness of everyone and found it hard to distinguish between Talis employees and attendees.