JISC has identified 10 thematic dissemination agendas (see image below):
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). (more…)
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. The project aims to help develop the institutional offering of advice, guidance and models for SMEs who wish to capitalise on web technologies. There are wide variations in the use of web technologies by SMEs, and differing views among the SME sector as to their value, and there is a role for HE and FE institutions in making SMEs aware of the benefits and opportunities of engaging with these technologies. Key areas of the project include institutions supporting SMEs in the economic downturn and the importance of creative and cultural industries. In the early stages of this new area of work Sero Consulting were commissioned to undertake a review of university and college engagement with small and medium sized companies (SMEs) regarding the business use of technology. Sero previously undertook the baseline evaluation of the overall BCE programme for JISC as well as a recent review of web-based support for BCE by JISC Advisory Services.
Please contact Punam Khosla punamk@btconnect.com if you would like to know more about this work.
A unique multiplatform production for BBC Two is inviting people to contribute to an open and collaborative documentary on the way the web is changing our lives and the world.
Open source, content creation, being deleted from the web, e-learning, blogging and copyright are all hot topics on the blogs, with guests including Wikipedia creator Jimmy Wales and technology commentator Bill Thompson stirring up the debate.
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A suite of tactical tools for use by policymakers and practitioners have been developed which include guides; case studies; “visualization” charts; and power points. They have concentrated on some of the “issues” in the seamless access to and use of publicly funded online content for learning, teaching and research and have been developed by all the agencies represented by the Strategic Content Alliance, so they are “profession neutral” (more…)
Recently Cecilia Loureiro-Koechlin from the BRII project announced that they had reached a project milestone by completing their Stakeholder Analysis report.
BRII are looking to develop a scalable infrastructure at the University of Oxford that allows for the sharing of research activity data and the report describes the basic problems faced by BRII in a large and heterogeneous institution and how they went about getting solutions. (more…)
During the conference, we introduced the brand new Jisc SSBR Twitter account. For those of you who have only a hazy idea of what Twitter might be, you can check out this short Common Craft video introduction, and to find out more about how Twitter is being used in Higher Education (here)
For those people and projects who already use Twitter accounts, please consider following us at https://twitter.com/jiscssbr, and we’ll follow you back.
We plan to run a feed of all the people we follow through the SSBR site – making our community’s public messages accessible to those who don’t visit Twitter and helping us to build a stream of information about all your interests, tips and concerns.
Josie Fraser
When I look back at Institutional Impact (ssbr0709) I am impressed by two things. First, how high the level of participation was, not just in terms of numbers but in terms of people who were active through all the available channels. Yes, it is a different and sometimes difficult environment requiring participants to acquire the habits of a new genre of participation: all the modes: voice, video text and graphics are nuanced by their bundling in the Elluminate (r) audiographic interface. The Internet reveals its imperfections when pushed to the limits and people display their resilience. It is important to stay away from early simplistic value statements comparing the environment with others. Distributed collaboration is the goal. We are exploring possibilities. People and contexts are all different and changing. The next event on 12 November 2009 will be different to this one.
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The JISC SSBR Institutional Innovation Programme conference on Institutional Impact featured a series of accompanying internet radio broadcasts. The radio was also streamed into the Elluminate platform and into the Second Life social event in the evening. Furthermore, the keynote presentation was broadcast live, enabling those not at the Elluminate event to listen. The radio programmes featured music, interviews and phone in sessions with guests.
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July 15, 2009, New York and London. Tens of millions of dollars, pounds and euros are invested each year by government agencies and private foundations to develop and support digital resources in the not-for–profit sector.
As institutional budgets tighten, will these digital resources be able to survive and thrive? A new study, released today by Ithaka S+R and the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, illustrates the varied and creative ways in which leaders of digital initiatives, particularly those developed in the higher education and cultural heritage sectors, are managing to identify sources of support and generate revenue.
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