What has happened this year? 2008-2009
August
JISC in numbers
10 years of procurement support with Procureweb
25 years of JANET
90% of UK universities members of Shibboleth
63,671 podcasts were downloaded
524,163 people visited the JISC website
1,083,072 documents were downloaded
JISC contributes to the Government’s consultation - the future of higher education - and hosts the debate blog
JISC confirms a further three years of funding to continue the work of the access management team and JISC Collections to bring publishers and service providers into the UK Access Management Federation
September
ALT and JISC sign a new two year memorandum of understanding
Ethos, a new online repository, launches in partnership with the British Library to put research papers online
JISC and UCISA announce the findings of a joint report into technology enhanced learning
October
JISC invests £1.8m in 25 new projects to enrich existing digital resources
University of Westminster lecturer Russell Stannard receives THE/JISC award for his website which uses video to mark students’ work
November
HEFCE awards £5.9m to JISC and The Higher Education Academy to run a 12 month programme on open educational resources
Twelve higher education institutions successfully win JISC funding to review their curriculum design processes
JISC’s Innovating eLearning 2008 online conference generates discussion from 400 UK and international delegates
JISC’s new briefing paper on Shared Services in UK further and higher education surveys the current landscape
December
Launch of JISC’s student experience campaign with a Guardian supplement
JISC TechDis wins the Excellence in Education category of the Scottish Open Source awards
20th century Cabinet Papers go digital providing free online access to more than 60 years worth of papers
The British Cartoon Archive launches bringing over 120,000 cartoons from 250 leading artists online
January
Professor Sir Tim O’Shea takes the helm as the new Chair of JISC
A three-year study called Researcher of Tomorrow starts, looking into the behaviours of the ‘google generation’ researcher
The John Houghton report funded by JISC finds that over £170 million could be saved across education if open access models were adopted
Bringing together best practice examples of how universities and colleges can reduce their carbon footprint, JISC publishes its Green ICT Suste-IT report
February
The first JISC Developer Happiness Day event gathers software developers from higher education and commercial backgrounds to find solutions to common educational issues
19th century Cabinet papers archive and the pre-Raphaelite resources site launch
March
JISC Collections sets up the license agreements for the UK’s first digital online library based in Scotland called The Scottish Higher Education Digital Library
JISC and UCISA sign a three-year partnership agreement
JISC hits Twitter trend with its annual conference. Over 750 delegates gathered in Edinburgh, making it JISC’s biggest event to date
JISC launches 6.5m items online including Scott’s Polar exploration, Archival Sound Recordings and the East London Theatre Archive
April
JISC hosts a library of the future debate at the Bodleian Library, Oxford
JISC Collections for Schools launches
JANET becomes the first national research and education network in the world to complete a 100Gbit network trial
New look JISC website goes live
May
At the IMS Global Conference in Barcelona, five JISC-funded projects and one of its services returned to the UK with a number of awards
The Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learning Experience, chaired by Sir David Melville, publishes its report Higher education in a web 2.0 world
June
Best Practice for a Digital Age e-learning publication is launched, looking at how to incorporate digital technologies into teaching
JISC Collections licenses over 3000 e-books for further education colleges for the first time
JISC Digital Media launches Video Assist, a new service offering free support for the creation of moving image resources
Cardiff University dermatologists win JISC’s Outstanding ICT category at the THE’s leadership and management awards
David Lammy MP launches JISC and Demos report – The Edgeless University
Dr Malcolm Read, JISC executive secretary, receives an OBE for his contribution to education
July
Library of the Future video concludes JISC’s 18 month campaign
The UK Access Management Federation reaches over 700 members
JISC Digital Content Conference discusses the next steps that need to be taken to ensure the sustained integration of digitised content into research and education