JISC

e-Learning programme The JISC e-learning programme enables the development and effective use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching in universities and colleges, so that staff benefit from e-learning...

Repositories and Preservation Programme The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories...

Digital preservation & records management programme Supporting institutions in long-term digital asset management and preservation forms a central theme of JISC's Digital Preservation and Records Management programme.

Information Environment Programme 2009-11 The aim of this programme is to improve the capacity of the sector to manage, discover and use information resources. There is now a critical mass of digital information resources that can be used to...

Users & Innovation: Personalising Technologies Based on the needs of real end-users, the programme will identify areas where innovative user technologies and practices can increase efficiency.

19th century pamphlets online This project will provide online access to the most significant collections of 19th century pamphlets held in UK research libraries. Digitising around 30,000 paper copy pamphlets, which focus on the...

Historic boundaries of Britain This project will create a comprehensive digital library of historic administrative boundaries for Britain through a combination of scanning historical maps and creating vector boundaries for...

British newspapers 1620-1900 1.1 million pages are being digitised from 18th and 19th century news, building on previous projects to enable access to a virtual library containing some 4 million digitised pages of important...

The John Johnson collection: an archive of printed ephemera The John Johnson Collection is widely recognised as one of the most important collections of printed ephemera in the world and generally regarded as the most significant single collection of ephemera...

A digital library of core e-resources on Ireland The digitisation of over 70 key journals, 205 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages from core Irish Studies collections makes this comprehensive, multi-disciplinary digital library the first point of...

Technology and Standards Watch (TechWatch) TechWatch anticipates developments in information and communication technologies that might have high impact on the core business of Further and Higher Education in five to ten years' time.

JISC Digital Media JISC Digital Media provides advice and guidance on the creation and use of digital media collections in learning, teaching and research. JISC Digital Media aims to promote and develop good practice...

JISC TechDis JISC TechDis is the leading educational advisory service providing advice and guidance on technology and disability to promote an accessible and inclusive experience for students and staff. JISC...

JISC CETIS (JISC Centre for Educational Technology Interoperability Standards) JISC CETIS advises Universities and Colleges on the strategic, technical and pedagogic implications of educational technology standards.

UKOLN UKOLN is a research organisation that aims to inform practice and influence policy in the areas of: digital libraries, information systems, bibliographic management, and web technologies.

Aqurate (QTI Authoring Tool) Final Report PDF document This final report describes the design and implementation of software for the creation and editing of assessment questions. The software was designed to work in conjunction with two other projects,...

Blooming CQF Project plan PDF document The project will be carried out through a partnership of Scottish Further Education Unit (SFEU), Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), the Scottish FE Librarians Community of Practice, eCom...

XCRI mini-projects Word document The University has developed a new strategic plan that explicitly focuses on new approaches to teaching and learning that create individualised pathways, step-on and step-off routes and a complex...

Blooming CQF Final Report PDF document Learning programmes and descriptors are defined at specific SQCF / QCF levels. Assessments are created to address whether learning, at these levels, has been achieved. However, generally assessments...

Low Cost URL Resolver Final Report PDF document This is the report from a scoping study funded by JISC to investigate whether comprehensive deployment of OpenURL resolvers within UK Higher Education and larger Further Education Institutions is...