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Repositories and Preservation Programme The programme is a £14m investment in Higher Education repository and digital content infrastructure. It will fund initiatives to develop the Information Environment supporting digital repositories...

Information Environment Programme 2009-11 The aim of this programme is to improve the capacity of the sector to manage, discover and use information resources. There is now a critical mass of digital information resources that can be used to...

e-Learning Frameworks and Tools programme The e-Learning Framework is a service-oriented factoring of the core services required to support e-Learning applications, portals and other user agents.

Learning and teaching innovation grants 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...

Institutional Innovation Programme The Institutional Innovation programme represents a £13.08m investment aimed at supporting existing institutional strategies by providing solutions to institution-wide problems, based upon proven...

Blind interactive simulation cricket user training Virtual practice and training sports environment project for the blind or visually impaired using 3D virtual sound and Wii technology.

Study of the effective use of social software to support student learning and engagement This study investigated the effective use of social software by Further and Higher Education in the UK to support student learning and engagement. The main deliverables of the study was 26 case...

Design of learning spaces in 3D virtual environments This project will evaluate a range of 3-D learning spaces, immersive and non-immersive, realistic and non-realistic, with students, in order to propose models for a variety of pedagogical...

SIS Landscape Study JISC funded programmes in recent years have led to an acceptance of the need for and the value of shared infrastructure services and a shared platform – the eFramework – by the UK HE sector. Some...

MakingTracks MakingTracks will integrate the work of the well established and popular online NRICH project at the University of Cambridge with the outcomes of the ELF funded project ISIS.

Technology and Standards Watch (TechWatch) TechWatch anticipates developments in information and communication technologies that might have high impact on the core business of Further and Higher Education in five to ten years' time.

JISC Digital Media JISC Digital Media provides advice and guidance on the creation and use of digital media collections in learning, teaching and research. JISC Digital Media aims to promote and develop good practice...

JISC infoNet JISC infoNet aims to be the UK's leading advisory service for managers in the post-compulsory education sector promoting the effective strategic planning, implementation and management of information...

Mimas Mimas is a national data centre based at The University of Manchester, supported by JISC and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Mimas provides the UK further and higher education and...

JISC Advance Advancing education, research and management through expertise, advice and inspiration in the use of technology.

Podcast: A self-confessed geek on JISC's 'Developer Happiness' event MP3 (Duration 12:50) In this podcast Kerry O'Neill talks, via Skype, to digital libraries and e-learning Programme Manager David Flanders who speaks about the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies, as well as...

The new Strategic Technologies Group promotional flyer PDF document JISC wishes to establish the Strategic Technologies Group (STG) as part of the Flexible Service Delivery (FSD) programme.

Aqurate (QTI Authoring Tool) Final Report PDF document This final report describes the design and implementation of software for the creation and editing of assessment questions. The software was designed to work in conjunction with two other projects,...

Project Plan: BRII (Building the Research Information Infrastructure) PDF document We define research information as the metadata around research activity – descriptions of projects, their funding, outputs, dates; profiles of researchers, their interests, backgrounds and...

Project Plan: A Web-Based Interactive Visualisation Modelling Platform to Effect Participative and Collaborative Planning and Design of Future Learning Spaces PDF document The University of Sheffield (UoS) has undergone an intense period of campus regeneration over the past 10 years. To achieve its academic and developmental goals, the Estates and Academic divisions of...

e-Assessment in Higher Education Project Plan PDF document The educational landscape is changing as government initiatives and student requirements call for more openness and accountability. Institutions are concerned with “consistency and fairness of their...