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JISC is committed to the open environment where pre-competitive ideas are shared and where new models of learning, research and knowledge transfer are supported.  A number of the JISC Innovation programmes support the exploration and implementation of this environment. This plenary session will present different aspects of the open agenda and invite the audience to discuss, question, challenge and raise issues to the panel. 

Session Chair

Craig Wentworth - JISC Programme Director - Organisation and User Technologies

The panel will discuss what particular open agendas can offer and their potential to impact on education and research

Panel

• Rufus Pollock: Openness: Innovation and Efficiency – the potential
• Ross Gardler: Open Source and Open Standards - what can they deliver?
• Helen Beetham: Open Educational Resources and Open learning
• Sal Cooke: Openness and Accessibility
• Hugh Look: Open research - Open Access and Open Science

The panel will present their vision of the transformation that their open topic can enable for 5 mins each.

Following the panel visions the discussion will be opened to the audience to discuss whether the visions presented realistic and feasible? How can they be achieved? What are the implications for research, learning and HE organisations? To reach these visions what needs to be done?

Extract from the JISC Strategy 2010–2012 – Generic Themes

The open agenda has many elements:

• Open source, which JISC will continue to support through policy and technical advice from the Open Source Software Watch
• Open standards, which are essential to enable institutions (and other organisations in the sector such as research funders and the Universities and Colleges Admissions Sevice – UCAS) to maintain flexibility in their IT systems, so they can build their IT infrastructure to suit their needs in a rapidly evolving technical environment
• Open educational resources to expand the availability of academic and scholarly resources to students, potential students and informal learners
• Open Access to support the need to make the outputs of publicly funded research widely available and ensure that research has as wide an impact as possible both within higher education and beyond
• Open data to strengthen the scholarly record, and to facilitate data aggregation and re-use, collaboration, open science and innovation
• Open science, which describes a range of innovative new scientific practices, for example wherein researchers immediately share their methods and results, as well as peer-reviewed outputs and data, with the research community and more widely, using networks to provide the potential for fast feedback and validation, enrolling a broad community into research work and providing for a complete, accessible and persistent record of research across its lifecycle
• Open innovation, wherein universities are partners with business, government and others in an innovation system that promotes the sharing of ideas across sectors, building relationships of trust between them, and enabling the exploitation of discoveries wherever that is best undertaken