Community and Sustainability
Session Overview
This session will explore the role of diverse communities in sustaining the outcomes of JISC projects. It will consider: what it is that gets sustained by communities – whether software, services, personnel, skills, development agendas; what kinds of communities engage with JISC outcomes; and what features of those communities provide fertile ground for the seeds of innovation to grow.
The session will be documented and outcomes will be fed into the development of a JISC Sustainability Toolkit, allowing the outcomes from this session to be sustained!
Session speakers
- Helen Beetham (Session Chair) - Independent/JISC Consultant representing ELESIG
- Jenny Mackness - Independent Education Consultant representing ELESIG
Jenny Mackness is an Independent Education Consultant, who specialises in facilitating and authoring online courses in higher education, and supporting and enabling technology enhanced projects and communities of practice. She is currently working with the support team for the JISC Institutional Innovation programme, synthesising the outcomes and outputs of 21 university projects. Jenny is also a founder member of the ELESIG community (Evaluation of Learners' Experiences of e-learning Special Interest Group), with responsibility for evaluating the work of the community.
- Paul Walk - Deputy Director, UKOLN
- Ross Gardler - Service manager, OSSWatch
- John Slater - Acting Director of Development, ALT
- Terry McAndrew - Director, Subject Centre for Biosciences