Issue Seven – 20 September 2009

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Welcome to issue seven of the Institutional Innovation Programme newsletter. You will find information on upcoming conferences and free events relevant to your projects along with details on new publications and programme news.

Introducing the Building Capacity Programme

Assemblies
  Assemblies link
Benefits Realisation
  Phase 2 blog
Conferences and events
  JISC Institutional Innovation SSBR Events
  JISC Innovating e-Learning 2009
  JISC Joint Innovation Forum
  e-Portfolio-based Learning
  e-Portfolios transforming 21st century learning?
  ELESIG Symposium
  Going Global 4
  SEDA Conference May 2010
Publications
  ALT-C Conference Publications
News in brief
  JISC TechDis

Introducing the Building Capacity Programme

Lawrie Phipps

One of the key success criteria of any project is the degree to which people use it and its outputs. The new Building Capacity programme is focusing on recent and existing JISC projects and services and helping HEIs to implement the outputs and outcomes of relevant projects in their institution in response to their own strategic drivers…

For more of Lawrie Phipp’s blog, see (here)

Assemblies

Assemblies link

If you are planning an assembly and would like some more information about past events, take a look at this http://assemblies.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/

Benefits Realisation

Phase 2 blog

We have mentioned a phase 2 of benefits realisation activity that would be “project fed” rather than “project led” which would involve other institutions taking and using outcomes from the Institutional Innovation projects to address issues of their own… View Paul’s blog (here)

Conferences and events

JISC Institutional Innovation SSBR Events

  • 12 November 2009 Sustaining Institutional Development (Elluminate)
  • 28-29 January 2010 Programme Meeting (Aston)
  • 25 March 2010 (Elluminate)
  • 14 October 2010 (Elluminate)
  • 27-28 January 2011 (location tbd)

JISC Innovating e-Learning 2009

Thriving, not just surviving 24-27 November 2009

The theme of this year’s JISC online conference reflects the challenges facing further and higher education in the 21st century with keynotes from Charles Leadbeater, leading thinker on innovation and strategy, Nigel Paine (writer, broadcaster, organisational learning specialist and former BBC Head of People Development), Helen Beetham and Dr Rhona Sharpe (JISC Learner Experiences of e-Learning), Peter Bradwell (The Edgeless University, Demos) plus a variety of sessions under two themes, each running over two days.

For more information, visit www.jisc.ac.uk/elpconference09 and see (here) for more information.

JISC Joint Innovation Forum

As well as the eLearning JISC online conference and the general JISC Conference in London 12-13 April 2010, there will be another JISC Joint Innovation Forum (JIF) 28-29 July 2010, London.

One person from each LLL&WFD project can be nominated to attend so put the date in your diary early to avoid disappointment. E-learning Programme Manager Ruth Drysdale will be on the working group planning this event, and if you are interested in presenting or being involved, please contact Ruth at r.drysdale@JISC.ac.uk The 2010 event will probably have a similar agenda format as 2008, the link to which is (here)

e-Portfolio-based Learning

Elluminate session 28 October 2009, 2-3pm (rescheduled from July 6th) Julie Hughes from Wolverhampton University will host a session on how the use of an e-portfolio system can support students to become critically engaged reflective learners. The session will draw upon 5 years experience in a School of Education with examples shared from Foundation Degree to Masters level. Register now at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/… and for more information, see (here)

e-Portfolios transforming 21st century learning?

3 November 2009 10:00 – 16:00 Euston House, London

e-Portfolios are not a new concept. In various guises, digital presentations of skills and competences, online records of achievement, and action plans with opportunities for reflection have been in use in education for nearly a decade. So what is new about e-portfolios?

Register now at: http://www.netskills.ac.uk/…. Please add ‘eport’ in the voucher code box under ‘Payment Method’. For more information about the workshop, see (here)

ELESIG Symposium

Learning literacies in the digital age 9.45 am – 4 pm, Wednesday 7 October 2009 The Studio, Birmingham

The Higher Education Academy supported ELESIG is a growing community of researchers and practitioners involved in investigations and evaluations of learners’ experiences of e-learning. ELESIG is now organising its seventh face to face symposium, sponsored by the JISC with contributions from colleagues who have been researching the skills and strategies of the digital learner.

Please use the booking form on the ELESIG Community site at http://elesig.ning.com/ For more information see (here)

Going Global 4

The British Council shall be holding its 4th Going Global conference at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre in London on 24-26 March 2010.

The conference theme is ‘World Potential: Making Education Meet the Challenge’, and will explore the trends and implications across the following areas:

  • Staff and student mobility
  • Global partnerships
  • Global citizens
  • Policy and leadership

For further information and details of how to register visit: http://www.britishcouncil.org/goingglobal.htm

SEDA Conference May 2010

The 2010 SEDA Spring Teaching Learning and Assessment Conference is being held in Leeds 6-7 May and the call for proposals and further details can be found (here)

Publications

ALT-C Conference Publications

The e-Learning Programme launched three new publications at the recent ALT-C Conference on Responding to Learners, Managing Curriculum Change and Learning Literacies in a Digital Age. For more information, see (here)

News in brief

JISC TechDis

JISC Techdis Staff from JISCmail and JISC TechDis have been working together and are pleased to offer access to ‘JISC TechDis ’ from the JISCmail Tools area of all list homepages.

A help webpage has been created here:(help page)

If you have any enquiries, please contact helpline@jiscmail.ac.uk and youcan also receive a monthly newsletter (here)

If you have any comments, news or information you would like to share with other projects, please feel free to contact me emma@jisc-ssbr.net

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