JISC is supporting, via the LTIG programme, one year projects and activities that fit with the vision, outcomes and principles of the JISC e-Learning programme and support innovative approaches to learning and teaching. This is an open call, and projects dealing with any aspect of e-learning are considered. To reduce the initial investment in time and resource needed to develop a traditional JISC proposal and to encourage speculative and innovative ideas from the community bidders submit outline proposals online. Funds up to £75,000 for projects of one year duration are available. JISC has committed at least £500,000 for this activity during the three planned years of this programme.

Learning and teaching innovation grants

The Learning and Teaching Innovation Grants programme supports one year projects of up to £50,000 each dealing with any aspect of eLearning. It is an open rolling call, with multiple submission deadlines available.

Proposals may be submitted by HE institutions funded via HEFCE, SFC, HEFCW and DEL Northern Ireland, and by FE institutions funded via SFC, DCELLS Wales and DEL Northern Ireland. FE institutions in England that teach HE to more than 400 FTEs are also eligible to bid provided proposals demonstrate how the work supports the HE in FE agenda.

Proposals may be from single institutions or consortia. Partnership arrangements may be developed outside the sector (for example with research council sites, publishers, commercial suppliers), but the lead partner must meet the criteria outlined above. Funds can only be allocated through the lead partner. Only one submission per institution is permitted for each submission date.

Assessment is via a two stage process:

  • Stage 1: a short outline proposal submitted via a bid template allowing assessors to choose interesting projects for the next stage
  • Stage 2: a video-conference or web-conference presentation and interview allowing the bidding team to elaborate on their project, and (if selected) the timely submission of a full JISC project plan.

JISC is continuously working to improve this experimental funding process and as part of this a review of the process was conducted in early 2009, reporting in March 2009. The review, undertaken by Dr Neil Witt, included a desk based analysis of bids to the first two rounds along with an examination of the assessment process. A copy of his final report is available at the end of this page.

Next Submission Date

The next call for the LTIG programme will be released in February 2010, with the next assessment point for initial proposals taking place in April 2010.  Further information regarding the requirements for the previous round can be found in the 04/08 funding circular.

 

Funded Projects


Phase 1

The following projects were selected for funding from those submitted to the May 2008 competition. These projects will run from 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2009.

Project name Lead instituition Level of funding Programme Manager
CRAMPON University of Manchester £75,000 David Kernohan    
DELVE Open University £75,000 David Kernohan    

 

Phase 2

The following projects were selected for funding from those submitted to the September 2008 competition. These projects will run from 1 January 2009 to 1 January 2010.

Project name Lead institution Level of funding Programme Manager
QR Code   University of Bath £63,295 David Kernohan    
EVA4All University of Edinburgh £40,000 David Kernohan    

Phase 3

The following projects were selected for funding from those submitted to the January 2009 competition. These projects will run from 1 May 2009 to 30 April 2010.

Project name & short description Lead institution Level of funding Programme Manager

Blind Cricket
Virtual practice and training sports environment for the blind or visually impaired using 3D virtual sound and Wii technology.

 London Metropolitan University £72,000 Heather Williamson    
SIMiLLE
Investigating the use of virtual world technologies to create meaningful contexts for learning a foreign language.
 University of Essex £75,000 Heather Williamson    
RATATAT
Remote access to practical laboratory exercises for students on an MSc course in non-destructive testing.
 Swansea Metropolitan University £40,000 Heather Williamson    

iChem3D
Investigating the use of Chemtube3D, and developing range of learning designs for the application.

 University of Liverpool £51,139 David Kernohan    

ExPOUND
Explaining Proofs: Offering Understanding through Notated Demonstrations

 Loughborough University £69,974 David Kernohan    


Phase 4

The following projects were selected for funding from those submitted to the July 2009 competition. These projects will run from 1 November 2009 to 31 October 2010.

Project name & short description Lead institution Level of funding Programme Manager

COMSLIVE
COMmunication Skills Learning in Immersive Virtual Environments. This project will develop and evaluate scalable models of teaching and learning that exploit the unique functionalities within the Project Wonderland Virtual World (VW) platform to enhance written and verbal communication skills amongst health care learners.  

 Birmingham City University £75,000 Heather Williamson    
Hand-held devices in education
Otherwise known as ‘Mobairu Gakushu’. This project will use Nintendo DSi hand-held games consoles to link students on exchange in Japan to co-students elsewhere in Japan and their tutors back home, including structured language learning exercises and feedback. The project will assess the use of advanced games consoles as a medium for delivering e-learning to communities of students learning non-European languages.
 University of Edinburgh £74,905 Heather Williamson    
Poetik
Poetik will be an application, freely available on the Web, to enhance the learning, teaching and assessment of poetry, a persistent problem in English pedagogy at secondary and tertiary level. The customisable visualisation and annotation interface will enable the student to analyse the poem as a layered artefact, while specific dimensions of poetic meaning such as scansion and phonemic pattern will be illuminated by semi-automated functions. Students will be able to interact with the poem as a ‘system of systems’.
 Bath Spa University £75,000 David Kernohan    

ScaLe (Scaffolding Learning) With Twitter
Exploring the usefulness of ‘microblogging’ (Twitter) as a means to scaffolding learning and engaging students in critical thinking. Applied with a high-fidelity human patient simulator, expert clinicians and teachers will construct a series of ‘tweets’ to illustrate a patient’s deteriorating, or improving, condition. Using Twitter applications, such as Twitter PollDaddy, learners will direct the course of a clinical scenario at appropriate assessment points and use Twitter’s review applications to highlight their clinical reasoning.

 University of Glamorgan £22,557 Heather Williamson    

Optimising Audio Feedback
Investigating three forms of audio feedback currently being used by lecturers around the UK to determine the optimal method for a variety of learners: audio-only, asynchronous audio-visual, and synchronous audio-visual. Quality and quantity of feedback will help determine which method will provide effective feedback for students without overburdening assessors.

 Aberystwyth University £13,057 Lisa Gray

 

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