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Learning and teaching innovation grants JISC is supporting, via the LTIG programme, one year projects and activities that fit with the vision, outcomes and principles of the JISC e-Learning programme and support innovative approaches to...

e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme The e-Learning Framework is a service-oriented factoring of the core services required to support e-Learning applications, portals and other user agents.

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...

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...

Institutional Innovation Programme The Institutional Innovation programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven...

Design of learning spaces in 3D virtual environments This project will evaluate a range of 3-D learning spaces, immersive and non-immersive, realistic and non-realistic, with students, in order to propose models for a variety of pedagogical...

Study of the effective use of social software to support student learning and engagement This study investigated the effective use of social software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to support student learning and engagement. The main deliverables of the study was 26 case...

SIS Landscape Study JISC funded programmes in recent years have led to an acceptance of the need for and the value of shared infrastructure services and a shared platform – the eFramework – by the UK HE sector. Some...

Programme approval lean electronic toolkit Utilising the Lean Thinking methodology for process improvements, the PALET project will develop revised procedures for the approval of new programmes to create a more agile, efficient and flexible...

MakingTracks MakingTracks will integrate the work of the well established and popular online NRICH project at the University of Cambridge with the outcomes of the ELF funded project ISIS.

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 infoNet JISC infoNet aims to be the UK's leading advisory service for managers in the post-compulsory education sector promoting the effective strategic planning, implementation and management of information...

Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) The ESDS is a national data service funded by JISC and the Economics and Social Research Council providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative...

Mimas Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester, supported by JISC and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Mimas provides the UK further and higher education and...

Podcast: A self-confessed geek on JISC's 'Developer Happiness' event MP3 (Duration 12:50) In this podcast Kerry O'Neill talks, via Skype, to digital libraries and e-learning Programme Manager David Flanders who speaks about the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as...

Deposit Plait Plan PDF document One of the main issues affecting institutional repositories today is the lack of content, and one of the common reasons expressed by academic staff is the resentment of re-keying data. The concept...

ISIS Project Plan PDF document The innovative learning outlined will be delivered via the IMS Simple Sequencing specification. This describes how a set of sequencing rules may be associated with a set of learning resources. These...

ISIS Work Packages PDF document ISIS – Project Plan Workpackages – 1.0 – 27 May 2004.

Resource List Toolkit Final Report PDF document A resource list is a generic collection of data such as bibliographic citation information, website links, course reserves, or reading materials. A common haracteristic of resource lists in many...

ISIS User Evaluation Report PDF document The ISIS project outputs include a java library and a web service both of which implement the IMS Simple Sequencing Service. The Simple Sequencing service is itself a relatively untried standard and...