Category Archives: JISC

The Learning Registry: Rough Guide for Contributors

Update:  For clarity, this is a piece of documentation for a specific group rather than a “regular” blog post. It may be of wider interest but it makes a number of contextual assumptions…
This document assumes that you have some familiarity with intent of the Learning Registry (LR) http://www.learningregistry.org/ and that you are interested in contributing [...]

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JISC and MIT: comparing notes on ed tech

A few weeks ago I had an opportunity to join a conversation between JISC and MIT OEIT (http://oeit.mit.edu/) to exchange information about current initiatives and possible collaborations. The general themes of the conversation were openness and sustainability. There was an agreed sense that, currently, “Open is the new educational tech” (Vijay). The areas of strategic [...]

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From the web: tools for project management and how to contract developers

Over on the IE blog Andy McGregor has a useful annotated list of some of the online tools that he has used to help with programme management.
Many could be just as useful projects - distributed or not.
http://infteam.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/06/web-tools-for-programme-management/
On a related note David Flanders has a useful and extensive reflection and how to guide on contracting [...]

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Upcoming CRIG unConference

At the end of this week JISC’s Common Repositories Interfaces Group (CRIG) are holding a two day meeting to look at the key scenarios affecting repository interfaces.
Our discussions for the two days are going to build on a series of teleconferences organised by the CRIG support project - WoCRIG which have just been podcast. I’m [...]

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