Institutional Innovation Programme Meeting
Institutional Pragmatics: Shaping Change,
Thursday 12 November 2009
Our next programme meeting is fast approaching. The Institutional Pragmatics: Shaping Change event takes place in Elluminate and via Internet radio Thursday 12 November. You can see the full programme on the event site, here http://ssbr1109.inin.jisc-ssbr.net and the link to the Elluminate room we will be using on the day is here http://elluminate.jisc-ssbr.net. To sign up, please go (here)
Event attendance is part of the Institutional Innovations projects’ commitment to the programme, so please ensure that your project is well-represented on Thursday.
Assemblies
STEEPLE Workshop, Nottingham, 23-24 November
TAG Retention Show and Tell, UCLan, 9 December
MEAoT, Cambridge University, 10 December 2009
ASSET, University of Reading, 14 January 2010
TELSTAR, Open University, 14 January 2010
Co-genT, University of Gloucestershire, 26 January 2010
XCRi Seminar Report
Benefits Realisation
Expressions of Interest
Programme News
LLLWFD Baseline Synthesis
Conferences and Events
Rethinking Learning and Employment at a Time of Economic Uncertainty
Quality and Responding to Employer Needs – Sharing Good Practice
Employer Engagement Event
Curriculum Innovation
eLearning Conference University of Ulster
Publications
Assessing the Business Case for Standards
Million+ Launches Research into the Impact of Funding
The Role of e-portfolios
Funding Opportunities
Enhancing Learning Through Technology
News in Brief
SME e-Empowerment
Learning Impact Awards Competition
JISC Digital Media
JISC infoNet Launches New Impact Calculator
Accessibility Considerations for Projects
Employer Engagement Community of Practice
JISC Photo Competition
Assemblies
Keep up-to-date with what is going on with your co-projects and their assemblies. See http://assemblies.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/ and also http://planet.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/, the Planet site for the Institutional Innovation programme. There are still a few projects without an RSS feed. If you would like any help to arrange the setting up of this, please contact Joe Rosa at joe@jisc-ssbr.net
STEEPLE Workshop, Nottingham, 23-24 November
The plan for this workshop is to run the first day (Monday, 23rd) as more of a technical day, and Tuesday (24th) as a more general day. You can attend either or both of these days, and for those who want to stay on, there’s also the opportunity to attend Nottingham’s Opencontent conference on the 25th. For more information, contact Bjoern at bjoern@CARET.CAM.AC.UK
TAG Retention Show and Tell, UCLan, 9 December
TAG is hosting a Retention Show and Tell to showcase some of the work going on around retention and in particular students transition into higher Education. For more information, visit (here)
MEAoT, Cambridge University, 10 December 2009
The aims of this assembly are to explore models for the distribution of software to encourage stakeholder adoption and to learn more about teaching administration software. Participants already signed up are MEAoT, representatives of Cambridge departments who are using the TODB, the BRII project and Social Sciences project DAISY from Oxford.
The assembly is on 10 December 2009, 12-4pm (plus visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum at 4pm for those interested) at CARET, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB. For more information, contact Avi Naim an10007@cam.ac.uk
ASSET, University of Reading, 14 January 2010
The ASSET project assembly will bring together a number of JISC projects and external speakers to discuss the use of video and audio for enhancing staff and student engagement with feedback. Read more (here)
Contact Robyn Drinkwater at r.drinkwater@reading.ac.uk for more details
TELSTAR, Open University, 14 January 2010
The TELSTAR team are holding an event on the 14 January 2009 at the Kents Hill Park Training and Conference Centre. The event will be opened up to the UK community and are looking to have approximately five session discussing Reference Management software. For more information, contact Sarah Torrie at s.torrie@open.ac.uk
Co-genT, University of Gloucestershire, 26 January 2010
Co-genT’s proposed event will be a face-to-face workshop hosted by the University of Gloucestershire, organised in collaboration with the ePPSME Project, with an open invitation to all the other projects in the JISC Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development (LLL & WFD) programme. The purpose will be to exchange ideas on the development and implementation of academic accreditation frameworks, and participants will be invited to share experiences with the aim of identifying common issues and how these have been dealt with in specific contexts. These issues will be shared with the community. For more information, contact Martin Jenkins at mjenkins@glos.ac.uk
XCRi Seminar Report
For Erica Jones’ report on the XCRi Seminar held on 7 September 2009 please see (here)
Benefits Realisation
Expressions of Interest
Members of the Institutional Innovations programme (including Phase 1a BR projects, Stage 2 Institutional Innovations projects and Stage 3 Lifelong Learning and Work Force Development projects) are invited to submit expressions of interest for Benefits Realisation projects. For more information see (here)
Programme News
LLLWFD Baseline Synthesis
The baseline reports synthesis of the JISC LLLWFD projects and the individual reports can be found (here)
Conferences and Events
* 28-29 January 2010 Programme Meeting (Aston)
* 25 March 2010 (Elluminate)
* 14 October 2010 (Elluminate)
* 27-28 January 2011 (location tbd)
Rethinking Learning and Employment at a Time of Economic Uncertainty
Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Manchester, 19-20 November 2009
The pace of social, technical and economic change in a global environment requires increasing adaptability and flexibility in businesses and organisations, especially for the people who work in them and the systems which support them. This need has been intensified by the current economic crisis. During the last four years the TENCompetence project has addressed these challenges by developing an infrastructure for lifelong learning in Europe. The project would like to invite you to their open workshop with keynotes from Rob Koper and Oleg Liber, research paper sessions, practical workshops focused around the project’s contributions, and round tables.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required as places are limited. Please follow this link to register for the workshop. For more information, see these links for further information about the programme, and accommodation.
Quality and Responding to Employer Needs – Sharing Good Practice
Birmingham, 1 December
This conference represents one of the outcomes of the partnership between fdf (Foundation Degree Forward) The Higher Education Academy (HEA) and the Quality Assurance Agency(QAA) and is supported by the Higher Education Funding Council England (HEFCE). For further information and to book a place at the conference see (here)
Employer Engagement Event
University of Salford, 2 December
The University of Salford HEFCE Employer Engagement project are holding a dissemination event to give the opportunity to share the findings and lessons from their successful SDF employer engagement project, ‘Driving Transformational Change’. This will be of interest to anyone working in the Employer Engagement area, particularly those in other institutions with SDF projects. For more information, contact Jane Timlin – j.timlin@salford.ac.uk or visit (here)
Curriculum Innovation
Trying to do better things – an emerging story about curriculum innovation, 2 December 2-3pm via Elluminate
Using his experience of trying to innovate in his institution, Professor Norman Jackson from the Surrey Centre for Excellence in Professional Education and Training will reflect on the different strategies that have been employed and relate these to leading research around institutional change and transformation. To register, see (here).
eLearning Conference University of Ulster
TEL it as IT is: Technology Enhanced Learning, 21 January 2010 Belfast Campus
The University of Ulster is organising its eighth annual e-Learning conference to foster the use of ICT in support of learning, teaching and assessment. The conference will address the enhancement of the learning experience through the impact of e-learning and will appeal to lecturers, learning technologists, e-learning developers, IT officers, academic advisors, e-learning support officers, educational developers and anyone involved in learning and teaching using technology. For full details, including booking information, please visit the conference website at http://campusone.ulster.ac.uk/elearn2010/ or contact Lorraine Lavery-Bowen at l.lavery-bowen@ulster.ac.uk
Publications
Assessing the Business Case for Standards
JISC e-Learning and JISC Cetis have just published a paper ‘Assessing the Business Case for Standards’ at (here) Copies can be printed or ordered from the website in the usual way.
Million+ Launches Research into the Impact of Funding
A report published recently by the university think-tank million+ confirms the value of funding projects to advance the innovative application of digital technologies in UK universities. The report ‘From inputs to impact: a study of the impact of JISC funding on universities’ examines the outcomes of 113 JISC-funded projects in 28 universities over a six-year period and can be downloaded here http://www.jisc.ac.uk/…
The Role of e-portfolios
The final report, plus case studies (34 in total) from the ‘Study on the role of e-portfolios in formative and summative assessment practices’ by a team led by the Centre of Recording Achievement, is now available from: (here)
Funding Opportunities
Enhancing Learning Through Technology
Academy calls for proposals and expressions of Interest. The Academy has issued two calls around evidence-based practice. Further information is available (here). Any enquiries should be directed to ELT@heacademy.ac.uk
News in Brief
SME e-Empowerment
As part of the JISC Business and Community Engagement (BCE) programme www.jisc.ac.uk/bce JISC TechDis is now project managing a new project entitled SME e-Empowerment. For more information, see (here) and contact Punam Khosla punamk@btconnect.com
Learning Impact Awards Competition
Nominations for the Learning Impact Awards competition are due in by 31 December 2009. JISC had several winners in the 2009 competition, and even if you are not ready to submit for 2010, you can still prepare for 2011! The awards recognise the use of technology to support and enhance learning, featuring the highest levels of innovation, adoption and learning. To submit your nominations, visit http://www.imsglobal.org/… and to find out more about the awards and see the previous winners, see (here)
JISC Digital Media
JISCmail and JISC Digital Media have been working together and are pleased to offer access to ‘JISC Digital Media’ from the JISCmail Tools area of all list homepages.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/using/jiscdigitalmedia.htm
JISC infoNet Launches New Impact Calculator
The Impact Calculator can be used to demonstrate the impact of process redesign by quantifying the tangible benefits or efficiency gains that can be derived from it. Originally developed under a Records and Information Management project, this tool has a much wider applicability for measuring the impact of change initiatives generally www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/impact-calculator
Accessibility Considerations for Projects
Techdis has produced a series of video resources to help you look at accessibility considerations around the technology aspects of your projects. The six clips last a total of 63 minutes and offer guidance on a range of issues including communication, engagement, user testing and support resources. For links to the videos see: (here – free registration)
Employer Engagement Community of Practice
The Academy had launched a new Ning community around employer engagement. To join, go (here)
JISC Photo Competition
This is open to all JISC projects, staff and services. The closing date is Nov 30th. For more information see (here)
If you have any news or information you would like to share, please contact emma@jisc-ssbr.net