Joint Information Systems Committee

Institutional Innovation Programme Meeting23 October 2008, London

Welcome to the JISCProgramme Introduction and Overview

Craig WentworthDirector of Organisational and User Innovation

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JISC’s Strategic Mission and Aims

To provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT, to support education and research

– To deliver innovative and sustainable ICT infrastructure, services and practice that support institutions in meeting their missions

– To promote the development, uptake and effective use of ICT to support

• learning and teaching

• research

• management of institutions

– To develop and implement a programme to support institutions’ engagement with the wider community

– Continuing to improve JISC’s own working practices

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JISC’s Political Drivers

Driven by needs of the community it serves

Supporting the aims and objectives of its funding partners

Working in collaboration with national and international partners

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JISC’s Primary Activities

Innovation Programmes

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JISC Committee Structure

Content

Network

Learning and Teaching

Support for Research

Organisational Support

Integrated Information

Environment

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JISC Innovation Group

Supporting

– Innovation and Change in HE and FE

– Institutions’ information systems strategy and planning

Over 300 projects, spread across programmes in themes of e-Learning, e-Research, information environment, e-content, etc. and across themes (such as the institutional Innovation programme)

– technology based

– providing a community-wide benefit

– adding value through economies of scale

– unfeasible without central support

– cannot be done better by another organisation

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Generic Outcomes of JISC’s Innovation Programmes

1. Enhanced capacity, knowledge and skills to enable positive and informed change in the sector (through piloting new technologies and approaches)

2. Guidance to the sector on ‘best practice’ models for using technology that can be used at departmental, institutional, regional or national levels

3. Strategic leadership to the sector and other bodies in specialist areas and to influence national and international agendas

4. Knowledge and experience as a basis for future funding decisions for the JISC and its sub-committees

5. New or enhanced services, infrastructure, standards or applications that may be used at departmental, institutional, regional or national levels

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JISC Capital Programmes 2007-09 Programme

April 2007 – March 2009

Approx £40m of innovation programme funding for

– e-Learning

– Repositories and Preservation

– e-Infrastructure

– Virtual Research Environments

– Digitisation

– Users and Innovation

– Institutional Innovation (Round 1)

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JSC Capital ProgrammesNew Capital Programme

April 2008 – March 2011

Approx £45m of innovation programme funding in new priority areas:

– green computing and sustainability

– efficient and effective integration of institutional systems

– shared services

– widening participation, employer engagement, support of lifelong learning

– joining up repositories

– digitisation of community-owned content

– research excellence

– security of data

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Institutional Innovation ProgrammeBackground

New phase: £11.8m over three years

Approx £6m for the 21 large exemplars (£200,000 - £300,000) under “Round 2” (October 2008 – March 2010)

To develop exemplar technology and practice solutions to institutional problems

– Supporting learners, teachers and researchers using emergent personal technologies and social software

– Improving institutions’ environmental sustainability through green computing

– Effectively planning for and using future learning spaces and other estates assets,

– e-Administration

Plus a support project which will synthesise, support and disseminate the outputs of the exemplars for the benefit of the community

Clusters of interests across these key areas of institutional ICT concern

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Institutional Innovation ProgrammeFuture Activity

October 2008: ten large (up to £300,000) lifelong learning / employer engagement exemplars

Benefits realisation activities – build upon and transfer the outputs from each round of institutional exemplar

projects

– embed them in their intended and other communities

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Programme MeetingThursday 23 October

1.30 Programme Introduction and Overview

2.00 Project Presentations

3.30 Tea and Coffee  

4.00 Programme and Project requirements

4.30 Communications and Branding

5.00 Close

7.00 Networking in Bar

8.00 Dinner

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Programme MeetingFriday 24 October

 9.00       IPR and JISC projects

10.00     Videocasts planning and production

10.45     Innovation Programme Support

11.30     Tea and Coffee

12.00     Programme Evaluation and Benefits Realisation

12.30     Lunch and depart.