Managing Relationships across the pond

December 13, 2011

It may sound like something for Kermit the frog, but no, I am talking about ‘Relationship Management’ and how the work here in the UK has been picked up in the USA.
I recently starting working on the JISC Relationship Management programme, which is genuinely a really interesting look at how institutions deal with the people [...]

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Service Design event

November 1, 2011

We are running an event on Service Design on Thursday 17th November in Birmingham (Conference Aston venue). This event is open to anyone interested in using service design to improve the student experience in HE and FE. It will focus on the mid to latter stages, i.e. blueprinting and implementation/trialling of improvements.
Places are limited, if [...]

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A brief overview of XCRI, about to have a new boost

July 12, 2011

A call has gone out today for institutions to bid for funding to further enhance the sectors’ knowledge and application of open processes by implementing a standard format for describing course data, which is at the heart of many learning providers organisational processes. This represents a massive wide scale investment; the initial work (Stage 1) [...]

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Digital Literacies on the horizon

May 10, 2011

I’ve just had a quick read of the Developing Digital Literacies briefing paper that accompanies the upcoming JISC funding call on the subject. Driven by government initiatives, in particular the “’Networked Nation’ manifesto in July 2010, with an aim of getting every working person in the UK online by 2015” the call is planned to [...]

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Technologies and standards used across the JISC Lifelong Learning and Workforce development (LLLWFD) programme

February 15, 2011
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I recently collated the information we have on all the projects working on the JISC Lifelong Learning and Workforce development (LLLWFD) programme in advance of their last programme meeting at the end of Jan (the programme ends March 2011.) I was looking at:
* Technologies used across the programme
* Standards used across the programme
* Capturing this [...]

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Beyond the ‘how to’ guides - a search

July 21, 2010
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Project visits by the SSBR team supporting the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme have flagged up a need for some ‘beyond the how-to’ type of guides. Whilst the guidance about how to use a certain technology are obviously helpful, there is a need for some additional guidance about the wider issues in using particular technologies, for [...]

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Learning Design - revisited, reinvigorated, resurrected?

May 21, 2008

CETIS ran a Learning Design event in Manchester on 20 May.
The idea behind this event was to provide an update on recent work in the area, but also to elicit feedback and suggestions about where this work could potentially go. The event intentionally focused on IMS Learning Design work (as opposed to [...]

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Bashing learning designs - emerging issues to share with the experts

November 6, 2007

The JISC Design for Learning programme held an unusual event on 23rd October, and took forth the findings (amongst many others) the following day to an invited group of learning and teaching practice experts.
The first days ˜Design Bash was targeted towards projects within the programme to explore the opportunities for sharing their project outputs, [...]

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