{"id":440,"date":"2019-09-10T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T11:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/digitaleducation\/?p=440"},"modified":"2020-03-02T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T10:11:05","slug":"hacking-the-future-at-the-can-conference-hackathon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kcl.ac.uk\/digitaleducation\/hacking-the-future-at-the-can-conference-hackathon-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Hacking the Future at the CAN Conference: Hackathon 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2019 ‘Change Agents and Network’ (CAN) Conference<\/a> hosted by JISC brought academics from the UK (and worldwide) together. The conference was held at the Open University Walton Hall in Milton Keynes, England. The aim of the CAN conference was to understand the \u2018evolving landscape of staff-student partnership\u2019. How can technology be used to support the learning experience for students? Part of the Conference was a Student Hackathon.<\/p>\n

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JISC is a UK research organisation which aims to support post-16 students and higher education students through the research they generate. JISC researches methods to develop new technology and ways of working; and provides advice, digital resources and network and technology resources.<\/p>\n

During the CAN Conference in 2019, JISC has organised for student teams from universities and colleges across the UK to join the Summer Hackathon. We attended the Hackathon as King’s College London’s representatives.\u00a0In this blog post, we are going to demonstrate what our project was about, what we presented as a result at the conference and what we learnt throughout the Hackathon at the CAN conference.<\/p>\n

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The hackathon was a student lead \u2018feature\u2019 of the CAN conference. We were asked to design, develop and build an application that would benefit students for one of four themes:<\/p>\n