Facilitated by Jisc
This group supports the learning, teaching and assessment portfolio and will set and validate high-level strategies, provide tactical insights (including financial context) and advise on vendor offers and consultations.
The group will provide insight and input on both the higher education and further education context and settings, and identify both key challenges in the sector now, in addition to anticipating future needs for learning, teaching and assessment.
The group will consider select vendor negotiations. The focus for the coming 12 months will include vendors and solutions in employability and skills and assessment and feedback. Through this activity the group will refine proposals, identify best in class exemplar agreements and set criteria and standards.
Members
Higher education
- Jo-Anne Watts, university librarian, University of Wolverhampton (chair for HE)
- Phil Brabban, university librarian and group director of learning resources, University of Coventry
- Dominic Broadhurst, head of content and discovery, University of Salford
- Farzana Latif, digital education systems manager, University of Leeds
- Nurun Nahar, assistant teaching professor, University of Greater Manchester
- John Parkin, academic employability consultant, Anglia Ruskin University
Further education
- Rob Wraith, head of learning technology and digital learning, NCG (chair for FE)
- Kirsty Ingleson, digital innovation manager, Kirklees College
- Zoe Tierney, learning technologist, Burton and South Derbyshire college
- James Wells, director of digital innovation and support, Middlesbrough college
- Louise Woodhouse, head of digital education, Weston College
- Stephen Williams, lecturer, Coleg Sirgar
Professional bodies
- Robin Armstrong Viner, associate director: head of libraries, Swansea University (representing WHELF)
- Victoria Farmer, resource services librarian, Robert Gordon University (representing SHEDL)
- Susan Martin, chief executive, ALT
- William Nixon, deputy executive director, RLUK
- Maria Proudly, learning resources manager, Hull College (representing the Council for Learning Resources in Colleges, CoLRiC)
- Jack Reid, content and discovery manager, Cranfield University
- Adam Robinson, head of academic services, University of Derby (representing Sherif)
- Ann Rossiter, executive director, SCONUL
- Keith Smyth, professor of pedagogy, chief executive, University of the Highlands and Islands (representing ALT)
Invited representative
- Gavin Phillips, category manager, academic services, SUPC (representing procurement consortia)
Membership information
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and colleges and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff, etc., contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
In addition there will be eight representative members as follows
- Four individuals from UK higher education institutions
- Four individuals from UK further education institutions
There will be eight members from professional bodies as follows
- SCONUL, RLUK, SHEDL, WHELF, Sherif user group, NAG, CoLRiC: one appointee from each
- Association of learning technologists (ALT): two appointees
In addition there will be one invited representative as follows
- Procurement bodies
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and colleges and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff, etc., contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
In addition there will be eight representative members as follows
- Four individuals from UK higher education institutions
- Four individuals from UK further education institutions
There will be eight members from professional bodies as follows
- SCONUL, RLUK, SHEDL, WHELF, Sherif user group, NAG, CoLRiC: one appointee from each
- Association of learning technologists (ALT): two appointees
In addition there will be one invited representative as follows
- Procurement bodies