The JISC is supporting previous projects funded through the e-learning programme to undertake activities to embed the outputs and outcomes from their successful project(s) into institutions in higher and further education and the skills sector (Work-based Learning, Adult and Community Learning, Specialist Colleges, Further Education Colleges and Offender Learning).

JISC e-Learning Embedding Benefits Programme

The JISC is supporting previous projects funded through the e-learning programme to undertake activities to embed the outputs and outcomes from their successful project(s) into institutions in higher and further education and the skills sector (Work-based Learning, Adult and Community Learning, Specialist Colleges, Further Education Colleges and Offender Learning).

Proposals were invited from the following e-learning programmes

  • Institutional Approaches to Curriculum design
  • Transforming Curriculum Delivery through Technology
  • Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development
  • Distributed VLEs
  • QTI Implementation, Profiling and Support Project
  • Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants
  • Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants: SWaNI FE

Embedding activities are described as:

  • Packaging: activities that will enhance the readiness of the knowledge and experience as well as the outputs from a project (or projects) (i.e. resources, materials, tools, etc.) for take-up and use by other institutions.
  • Capacity Building: activities will raise awareness and share knowledge at practitioner, technical support and managerial levels so that more people are able to undertake similar endeavours.
  • Take-up Pilots: activities that will engage more institutions in successfully using the outputs/outcomes from projects.

In total 42 proposals were received from 37 projects, and of these 27 proposals were funded.

Programme/Institution 

Project Name

Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants  
University for the Creative Arts iTrace
University of Strathclyde  PEER Toolkit
University of West London Feed-Forward For Informed Learning (FfiL)
Birmingham City University eMargin – embedding a text annotation tool in VLEs
The Open University UK Handbook of evaluating the effective use of emerging technologies in education (EVAL-SOCIAL-SW)
The University of Manchester SCARLET+ (Special Collections using Augmented Reality to Enhance Learning and Teaching)
Teesside University W3C Widget Design and Authoring Toolkit (WIDGaT) n Practice (WiP)
Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants: SWaNI FE 
Reid Kerr College xGames 4 U
Coleg Gwent MOtIvATE-ing
Coleg Sir Gâr Pilot of the SWANI Project Administrative Network (POTSPAN)
Transforming Curriculum Delivery through Technology 
University of Westminster e-Reflect-BR
Newcastle University Embedding Benefits of Dynamic Learning Maps
St George’s University of London Generation 4.5 (G4.5)
University of Leicester SPEED (Sharing Practice for Embedding E-design and Delivery)
Institutional Approaches to Curriculum design
University of Greenwich Snakes & Ladders – A Resource for Realising Strategies for Transition and Retention
Staffordshire University Supporting Creative Thinking around Course Development Processes
University of Ulster Panorama
The Open University Open Learning Design Studio (OLDS) - MOOC
Distributed VLEs
University of Stirling ceLTIc II:sharing - Creating Environments for Learning and Teaching with Infrastructure Constructed for Sharing
University of Edinburgh QTI Pilots: Embedding and Take-up (QTI-PET)
City of Glasgow College Extending the functionality of a VLE
Lifelong Learning and Workforce Development
University of Nottingham Placements Portal Package (P3)
University of Gloucestershire Co-generative Toolkit (Co-genT)
University of Westminster Taking Work-based Learning Forward in Scotland using the Work-based Learning Maturity Toolkit
Cardiff Metropolitan University Delivering WBL Improvements- DEWI
Middlesex University MUSKET-SALAMI Pilots (MUSAPI)

Contact

Summary
Start date
1 May 2012
End date
31 May 2013
Funding programme
e-Learning programme
Strategic Themes