JISC CreateCommunity Resources, Assets and

Technology for Education

Presentation to selection panel19 September 2008

Outline

• Added value– Sustainable development– Continuous transformation– Social capital growth

• Team• Plans & Activities• Technology• Questions

Create will add value• by facilitating community interactions to promote peer sharing

– between the projects,

– between the projects and the programme and

– between the projects and the wider educational community

• through a programme of activities supported by appropriate technologies

• through bringing together and synthesising emerging project experiences

• by a multi-skilled, experienced and adaptable team

• in association with the programme leadership and stakeholders as appropriate, e.g.

- JISC advisory and innovation support services

- HEA subject centres

- institutional leadership

Sustainable development

• Sustainable “project support” necessarily entails community formation

• Community is essential to synthesis, in bringing the projects and their experiences together

• Create is based on and contributes to the ongoing evolution of a wider community-development approach to programme support, drawing lessons from, e.g.:– Elearning support and synthesis– Users & Innovation, Emerge

Continuous transformation

• Foster institutional centres of innovation – centres of expertise that can support the the sector

• Show that institutions need to explore the boundaries – of technology – of learning, teaching and admin practices– and their own institutional boundaries (shared

services, HE in FE, distributed learning centres, etc)– in order to survive and to develop.

Social capital growth“cross departmental and cross domain”

• Bonding– Traditional practice exhibits strong bonding capital. People identify and

support one another in established local contexts

– Boundary spanning is the preserve of a few and takes place in fairly rigid structures

• Bridging– Emergent, innovative practice encourages & builds on strong local bonding to

enable greater numbers of people to reach out across the boundaries, expanding their personal spans of control and extending their experience to the wider sector.

– between institutions and/ or projects

– between senior management and project teams within institutions

Create Team• Synthesis and planning leads

– Isobel Falconer– Paul Bailey– Emma Anderson

• Technology platform– Joe Rosa

• Finance, admin and control– Judith Lyons– Lynn Farrell– OCSLD events team

• Oxford Brookes Publishing team– Stephen Ball, Helen Swain

• Director- George Roberts

• Facilitation, discovery, support and events– Mitul Shukla– Steven Warburton– Patsy Clarke– Josie Fraser– Graham Attwell– OCSLD consultants

• Indicative list: Mike Laycock, Lou McGill, James Wisdom, Dave Wilkinson, Ranald Macdonald

• Critical friends (JISC)

Activities• The team will organise events and activities with

the aim of– Determining unique needs of Institutional Innovation

Programme– Early harvesting of synthesis information

• themes• shared technologies• common challenges• related programmes and projects

– Supporting projects to consider benefits early on in the project cycle

– Facilitating community formation and development; – Facilitating dissemination, knowledge sharing and

benefits realisation

JISC Create

Ongoing programme of project-based & Create-team-

facilitated seminars, workshops, cluster meetings,

newsreels, social learning

Ongoing programme of project-based & Create-team-

facilitated seminars, workshops, cluster meetings,

newsreels, social learning

Monthly, 1st Thursday, team tele

conferenceQuarterly budget

meetingTwice yearly

advisory group

Monthly, 1st Thursday, team tele

conferenceQuarterly budget

meetingTwice yearly

advisory group JISC critical friends

JISC critical friends

Work packages, Phase 1

• Inception• Launch Phase 2 Projects Sept 08 – Jan 09• Synthesis and Benefits Realisation of

Institutional Exemplar Projects• Community Development and Support• Synthesis and discovery • Web space and Presentation • Evaluation

Inception plan

• Programme Start-up– Early meeting with JISC to agree plans, roles,

responsibilities– set dates for events and programme activities, critical

friends– Review project proposals to identify themes, drivers,

audiences and outputs

• Programme launch event• Online community start-up activities– Projects set-up profiles, feeds and links in support web site

Launch Phase 2 Projects

• Analysis of project proposals– Identify links with existing innovations projects

• Critical friends and clusters– Select and appoint (JISC) critical friends– Allocate projects to clusters

Synthesis and Benefits Realisation of Institutional Exemplar Projects

• Collation and analysis– via online seminars and interviews• Story gathering• Sense making

– Make data available through website

• Outputs synthesis– look at opportunities for further BR

• Benefits realisation activities

Community Development and Support

• Biannual blended online conference• Project-led, Create-facilitated cluster meetings• Synthesis seminars• Newsreel activities • Informal social gatherings using community spaces

such as Second Life • Supporting projects to form and grow satellite

communities of practice that bring in existing stakeholder audience

Synthesis and discovery of phase 2 projects

• Collate outputs from community development and support activities.

• Analyse these in context of the institutional exemplars (Phase 1 projects).

• Use analysis to frame synthesis seminars and ongoing community development activities

• Produce and support ongoing development of synthesis outputs

Open services portfolio: different environments working under the

same design framework

Open services portfolio: different environments working under the

same design framework

SSO between components;clicking in Moodle, CMS,

Elluminate, etc will maintain the same design, allocating the main

content to the left and control blocks to the right side.

SSO between components;clicking in Moodle, CMS,

Elluminate, etc will maintain the same design, allocating the main

content to the left and control blocks to the right side.

Questions for the panel• Have dates/venues been set for programme inception meeting(s)• Has the list of funded projects been finalised? How many?• Does the panel still believe the 4 areas of institutional ICT concern

are an appropriate conceptual structure?• Will there be a separate evaluation (formative ongoing or

summative at end) and if so how will it relate to the support project• What is the plan for Benefits Realisation funding to projects• Widening engagement?• How open does the panel conceive the community?

– Outward– Inward– Upward

• If we are to reach the wider sector the way the call stresses, then we would have thought the community needs to be fairly open

Thank you

George RobertsOxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development

groberts@brookes.ac.uk07711 698465

Isobel FalconerGlasgow Caledonian University

Isobel.Falconer@gcal.ac.uk 07914 987549