User-Owned Technology Demonstrators strand
JISC has funded five projects to demonstrate and explore the issues around the integration of user-owned technologies with institutionally-owned educational systems. The projects will implement a small-scale demonstrator of the use and integration of student- and/or practitioner-owned technologies in order to do this.The projects started in March 2007 and will run until late Feburary/early March 2009.
Funded projects
| Lead institution |
Project name |
Summary |
| Oxford University |
Isthmus: Linking the personal and the insitutional in learning technologies |
The Isthmus project aims to provide a link between the technological landscape inhabited by many students and the technologies offered by tertiary educational institutions. By researching the uptake of user-owned technologies among selected students Isthmus will establish the requirements for a demonstrator integration of tools and systems between institutional and individually owned technologies and pilot and evaluate these. |
| Ravensbourne College |
Ravensbourne Learner Integration |
Ravensbourne Learner Integration aims to understand better how educational institutions can adapt to and apply the emerging techniques and paradigms of social networking and “web 2.0” applications. The particular focus of the project is to facilitate the integration of institutional systems into the socio-technical landscape of student and staff engagement with the online world in the context of practice-based education. |
| University of Chester |
PADDLE |
This project aims to identify, implement and evaluate the affordances of personal, user-owned technology integrating with institutionally-owned technology, the effects on the learner, learning, teacher, and organisation. Acting as a pathfinder for the greater communities of the University of Chester and the education sector as a whole, identifying successes, interventions and challenges which can be communicated and built upon. |
| University of Reading |
MeAggregator |
The aim of MeAggregator is to develop an open source application that can be web based or on the desktop, that will serve as a 'Me Aggregator'. The Me Aggregator will configure the total set of technologies that an individual is using at a specific point of time, on a flexible and modular basis. |
| University of Sussex |
SPLASH: Student Personal Learning and Social Homepage |
The overall aim of SPLASH is to help provide a more personalised learning experience by developing a user owned web based portal/mashup service that can be integrated with institutionally owned educational systems. Central to the project will be to support the management of artefacts created by learners through the use of mashup technology where content can be created in and gathered from external sources, to create Student Personal Learning And Social Homepages. |