Start date: 1 November 2007
End date: 1 March 2009
Funding programme: Institutional Exemplars Programme
Project website:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_exemplars/Project_LIW.aspx
JISC theme(s): e-Administration, Access management, e-Learning
Committees: JISC Integrated Information Environment committee, JISC Learning and Teaching committee, JISC Organisational Support committee
Overview
'LIW for academic staff' develops an existing Location Independent Working (LIW) scheme operating within the University’s wholly-owned commercial company, Coventry University Enterprises Ltd. (CUE) to make it suitable for academic staff in teaching roles. CUE has successfully implemented LIW for over 50% (currently this amounts to c.75 people) of its staff. The project aligns the cultural change necessary at individual, departmental and institutional levels with the application of tried and tested technologies to develop a comprehensive e-working scheme for academic and non-academic staff.
Aims and objectives
The aim of the project is to demonstrate that LIW can bring significant benefits to teaching staff, their employers and their students and to build an LIW framework that can be adopted by other members of the JISC community. We will build a production quality e-working service for academic staff of Coventry University
The objectives for the project are to:
- Build on the existing LIW scheme to encompass the needs of academic staff
- Develop the existing LIW software tools to enable them to work with a wide range of user environments and user-owned devices
- Analyse any gaps in the existing toolset and fill them
- Ensure University employment practices and LIW are fully consistent
- Promote the advantages of LIW among senior managers in the University
- Develop a suite of briefing and training materials for both LIW participants and their managers
- Implement LIW within at least one Faculty within the University (ie covering at least 20% of the University’s academic staff)
- Provide a multi-dimensional evaluation of the affordances of LIW for academic staff
- Undertake an economic assessment of LIW
- Provide guidance to the sector on the impact of LIW on staff satisfaction and teaching quality
- Make all briefing and training materials available as SCORM compliant learning objects on the Coventry University institutional repository (CURVE). CURVE will be linked to external repositories including JORUM
For more information visit the project website