August 22nd, 2010 by admin
A Few Words…
Hopefully by now most of you will have had a break, or are about to have one before returning to school/work in the next couple of weeks. The SSBR team has been working on the JISC-SSBR Institutional Innovation Festival of Assemblies which takes place on 20 October in Oxford, details for which can be found below. Don’t forget to book your place!
Look forward to seeing you in October!
Emma
emma@jisc-ssbr.net
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July 25th, 2010 by Emma
A Few Words…
Plans for the Festival of Assemblies are gathering pace and there will be confirmation of venue in the next newsletter. In this issue, there are more details of the FOA (themes, Trade Fair etc), JISC thematic dissemination agendas, news on Benefits Realisation and project news.
The Festival of Assemblies – Wednesday 20 October
The theme of the festival is ‘Personalisation’. It is an opportunity for projects to host assemblies, trade ideas and network at a gathering of the projects, together with representatives of JISC programmes, at a central venue – watch out for the email that will announce the venue.
Festival activities include collaborative assemblies and a Trade Fair of products/outputs. Read the rest of this entry »
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July 24th, 2010 by george
JISC has identified 10 thematic dissemination agendas (see image below):
- Entrepreneurial spirit
- Exemplary Employer
- Best-Practice Management Systems and Processes
- Local, Regional, National, International Social, Cultural & Economic Development
- Reduce Cost, Generate Income
- Streamlined Integrated Admin Systems
- Environmental Quality and Sustainability
- Superb Student Experience
- Academic Excellence
- Organisational Development

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July 4th, 2010 by Emma
A Few Words…
This issue highlights the forthcoming Festival of Assemblies which take place on Wednesday 20 October (please make a note in your diaries!). The venue is still to be confirmed, but as soon as there is news, we will pass the details on. In addition, there is a report on the recent MUSKET assembly, a table outlining your assemblies and project information and a list of conferences and events that may be of interest to you. As ever, if there is anything you would like to announce or comment on, please contact emma@jisc-ssbr.net
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June 13th, 2010 by Emma
The Support and Synthesis project is getting down into two grooves of activity. The first is supporting the Phase three, Lifelong Learning projects to produce their outputs and then to realise the benefits more widely. We are contacting and visiting all projects, stirring up assemblies, promoting the “Festival of Assemblies” on 20 October (do get that date in your diaries) and encouraging the uptake of the current call for Benefits Realisation funding. I hope you find our interest informative and developmental and not just a blind nuisance. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 17th, 2010 by admin
A Few Words
Congratulations to the Phase 2 Institutional Innovation projects on reaching a big milestone in your journeys. I am really pleased to be seeing your final reports and your project outputs. Phase 3: keep calm and carry on! The support team (SSBR) is being reshaped and refocused to concentrate on synthesising the outcomes from what has in many ways been a visionary programme. Taken individually, you have all achieved great things at the practitioner and institutional level. Taken collectively, the outcomes of the programme are going towards helping to define what we can imagine as the future higher education space. Read more (here)
Thank you all for your participation in the Institutional Innovation Programme.
George Roberts
groberts@brookes.ac.uk
Benefits Realisation
Invitation for Ideas for Benefits Realisation Projects
Members of the Institutional Innovations programme, Phase 3 Lifelong Learning and Work Force Development projects are invited to submit expressions of interest for Benefits Realisation projects. Funding of up to £15,000 is available to individual projects or funding of up to £50,000 for clusters of projects or projects that engage several institutions will be available for Benefits Realisation projects that support the programme to embed new practices in sustainable communities of interest. Total funding available is around £200k. The BR funding period is from Aug/September 2010 to March 2011. All projects to complete before 31 March 2011. For more information, see
http://br.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/
Paul Bailey
paul@jisc-ssbr.net
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May 16th, 2010 by Emma
FE to HE Transition: can online peer support aid and ease this phase?
HE Net is a JISC funded, collaborative research project between FE (Further Education) and HE (Higher Education) sectors. This forms part of the Benefits Realisation strand, which forms part of the HELLO Project (Higher Education Lifelong Learning Opportunities). Read the rest of this entry »
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May 16th, 2010 by Emma
Congratulations to the Phase 2 Institutional Innovation projects on reaching a big milestone in your journeys. I am really pleased to be seeing your final reports and your project outputs. Phase 3: keep calm and carry on! The support team (SSBR) is being reshaped and refocused to concentrate on synthesising the outcomes from what has in many ways been a visionary programme. Taken individually you have all achieved great things at the practitioner and institutional level. Taken collectively, the outcomes of the programme are going towards helping to define what we can imagine as the future higher education space. This is a space where we might see institutions be (virtually) disaggregated and recombined at various levels into novel partnerships and associations with other institutions, enterprises, firms and civil society bodies at the regional, national and even global levels.
Alongside this reshaping of the institutional space we will see novel frameworks for accreditation supporting more and increasingly flexible pathways for progression, personal and professional development and lifelong learning. New literacies and practices for the digital era are being developed by teachers and learners (are we not all in our ways researchers, mentors and designers of learning?) and these will be set against new knowledge frameworks for validating academic knowledge and assessing and recognising achievement: while still early days, for example, there is an assault on the hegemony of print as the medium for storing valorised propositional knowledge; how do you cite and annotate a podcast; what are the real challenges for providing audio and video feedback? We are already seeing the physical and digital worlds becoming more and more mutually interpenetrating as reconfigurable learning spaces are built and connectivity and connected devices become ubiquitous.
All this, of course, means that there is a lot of work still to be done on the semantics of access and discovery; it is not just identity management, but a new web of people and things articulated through new standards and practices: what Tim O’Reilly recently called the operating system of the Internet. And, of course, all this means that the notions of “traditional” and “non-traditional” learners and learning breaks down. Will the new higher education space be one where participation in learning is accessible to all who need and want it? I would hope so, but we need to recognise that the space is still contested (and costly) and that there are many drivers for change: political, economic, pragmatic and – mediating between these – JISC programmes.
In the months to come I will be approaching you all with a view to producing a number of reports and briefings for senior managers, higher education leaders, and the JISC. I look forward to reflecting with you on the meanings of your achievements.
Thank you all for your participation in the Institutional Innovation Programme.
George Roberts
groberts@brookes.ac.uk
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March 15th, 2010 by admin
Issue Four – March 15
A few words…
In this newsletter, you will find details on assemblies, conferences, events and publications which relate to your projects. Don’t forget to visit the Assemblies site to see what projects are doing, the Comms site for information on dissemination and the SSBR_DB site for the database.
http://assemblies.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/
http://comms.inin.jisc-ssbr.net
http://inin.jisc-ssbr.net/ssbrdb/
If you have any news or information you would like to share, please contact emma@jisc-ssbr.net
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