JISCs role in the changing HE landscape

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JISCs role in the changing HE landscape
Next Generation Environments Conference
Sarah Porter
Head of Development 27 April 2007
Supporting education and research Slide 1
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Outcomes of Development Programmes supporting
change in HE

• 1. Enhanced capacity, knowledge and skills to
  enable positive and informed change in the sector
  (through piloting new technologies and
  approaches)
• 2. Guidance to the sector on best practice
  models for using technology that can be used at
  departmental, institutional, regional or national
  levels
• 3. Strategic leadership to the sector and other
  bodies in specialist areas and to influence
  national and international agendas

• 4. Knowledge and experience as a basis for future
  funding decisions for the JISC and its
  sub-committees
• 5. New or enhanced services, infrastructure,
  standards or applications that may be used at
  departmental, institutional, regional or national
  levels

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Programme Management Environment
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Next generation trends represented in the JISC
Strategy

• Modular approaches to software development and
  Service-oriented approaches (e-Framework)
• Community
• Open content, open access
• Informal publishing and networking
• Community-focused development models
• Focus on the individual (learner, teacher,
  researcher) as well as the institution

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SAGE Example
SAGE Virtual Reality Data Analysis
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The Programme Vision
To create opportunities to transform practice by
developing technologies and processes that
support the user experience in improved and
innovative ways
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What will the Programme do?

• Bring together a community that will investigate
  and collaborate around the strands of the
  programme
• Community characteristics
• JISC Involvement
• Real issues
• Diversity

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Two Strands Personal e-Administration

• 3 projects funded aimed at different aspects of
  personal administration loads
• Flourish
• Streamline
• TicTOCs

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Two Strands Next Generation Technology and
Practice
Technologies that have been characterised by the
term Web 2.0 and social software
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Final word JISC Capital Programme

• Funding available April 2006 March 2009
• JISC will fund projects and activities that help
  to accelerate the pace of change in
• e-infrastructure and virtual research
  environments
• learning and teaching
• repositories and preservation
• users and innovation
• digitisation and e-books
• Call for proposals for the third phase of funding
  released today!