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The third phase of the Academy/JISC UKOER programme

The programme is focused on supporting large-scale changes in assessment and feedback practice, supported by technology, with the aim of enhancing the learning and teaching process and delivering...

A priority investment area in the JISC Strategy 2010-12 is helping institutions to be efficient and effective particularly through the development of their corporate and business systems. JISC’s...

With an investment totalling about £5.4m the Content programme 2011-13 supports the innovative creation, embedding and clustering of digital content through projects as wide ranging as the Zandra...

Many learners enter further and higher education lacking the skills needed to apply digital technologies to education. As 90% of new jobs will require excellent digital skills, improving digital...

Digital Infrastructure Directions is a cross-cutting activity for the Infrastructure team that will act-across and work-with all our other current Programmes of work. This means that all Programmes...

Libraries have always been at the centre of JISC’s mission. Over the years, our work has helped create what might be termed a distributed digital library for UK higher education, consisting of a...

JISC is changing the world of authoritative e-resources through its investment in digitising content from some of the UK’s greatest collections.

JISC's Digital Infrastructure Strategic Directions strand of projects has a two-fold responsibility: in the first case it is the clear reporting of evidence from our full portfolio of activity to our...

The JISC e-learning programme enables the development and effective use of digital technologies to support learning and teaching in universities and colleges, so that staff benefit from e-learning...

Data management planning is increasingly viewed as an essential and enabling activity in support of the research process. Most UK research funders require a data management plan to be submitted with...

The Greening ICT Programme will allow JISC to deliver on its key strategic priority of enabling the greening of ICT in the Higher and Further Education sectors through organisational change and...

Academic libraries operate in a challenging environment. They face financial pressure as well as increasing competition from organizations such as Google, Amazon and Apple iTunes for services they...

Phase 2 of Relationship Management, initiated with Grant Call 13/10, has funded a portfolio of 16 projects to support institutions across three strands, including a new area focussed on supporting...

The management of research data is recognised as one of the most pressing challenges facing the higher education and research sectors. Research data generated by publicly-funded research is seen as a...

Higher education institutions are under increasing pressure to provide services and infrastructure for research data management. These pressures come from a variety of sources: the opportunities of...

One of the most significant drivers to improve research data management comes from research funders, who recognise that 'good research needs good data'. Most major UK research funders have...

As a result of JISC programmes and initiatives since 2002, the UK now has a repository infrastructure consisting of nearly 200 repositories with a number of shared service projects mainly around the...

The aim of the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is to build a common information environment where users of publicly funded e-content can gain best value from the investment that has been made by...

The programme is aimed at supporting institutional staff across 23 universities to effect large-scale organisational change, underpinned by ICT, where there is a objective to enhance student...

The £12.5 million UMF Shared Services and the Cloud Programme is part of a suite of activities under the University Modernisation Fund (UMF), a HEFCE fund that aims to help universities and colleges...

As the anniversary of the start of conflicts of World War One (WW1) approaches in 2014, the JISC would like to explore what opportunities – creative, strategic and technological- there may be in the...