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Spotlight on…. Birmingham Metropolitan College September 17, 2009

Posted by Jacquie Kelly in : Collaborative Tools, Trials, BCE , 3comments

Midland Health Academy (Led by Birmingham Metropolitan College)
The project reported that the development stage had been completed and that all the Midland Health Academy partners had agreed to be involved in the project.
It was decided that Moodle would be used and training has been arranged for all the partners involved. Elluminate has also been chosen as the collaborative tool for the project. There were some problems relating to licences and support so Birmingham Metropolitan College are now making the most of the JISC Advance (what we used to call JISC Services) licence that JISC Netskills manage.
Project partner meetings have also been held and the priorities agreed. Stage 1 consists of online meetings and blogs. Stage 2 involves collaboration and discussion through forums and shared folders, with Stage 3 focussing on workforce development and knowledge exchange. In Stage 4 the project will look at product development, possible CPD modules and other courses developed to meet workforce development needs.

Looking further ahead the project hopes to complete the curriculum mapping of all courses and training offered by the partners, as well as starting to define the progression pathways for NHS staff training and development. The project also hopes to share workforce development plans for the Heart of Birmingham tPCT and build on the successes already achieved.

OK - hopefully you will have noticed that the change in name! Sutton Coldfield and Matthew Boulton College have merged.

Web2practice June 30, 2009

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JISC Netskills are producing a range of short web2practice guides for new users of web2.0 technologies and social software. Five preview animations are available now, explaining how social media, RSS, microbloging, podcasting and collaborative writing can enhance your working practice. More will be released this summer with each guide consisting of a short, animated video explaining the key concepts, supported by a more in-depth guide for download and printing.

The guides are contextualised for researchers, teachers and administrators. However, their generic nature makes them suitable and useful for a wider audience (including BCE). Let us know if you use these guides as part of your BCE Collaborative Tools Project Trials!

To find out more, visit the web2practice website: http://web2practice.jiscinvolve.org/, read the news article on the JISC website or watch the slidecast below.

View more documents from Steve Boneham.

Brian McCaul on YouTube April 16, 2009

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Ever wonderered just what we mean by the term ‘BCE’? Well, here you can hear what Brian McCaul, Director of Commercialisation in the Enterprise in the Innovation Office at The University of Leeds has to say on the topic.

This video was recorded at the Studio in Birmingham. Brian is leading on one of our Trial Projects.

Link to Video on YouTube

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Pitch & Perfect March 12, 2009

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When planning the ‘Trialling of Online Collaborative Tools for BCE’ project our team discussed various methods for identifying and selecting the nine trials required to take part.  After much deliberation the team decided upon a model/method/framework (call it what you will) of ‘Pitch & Perfect’.  We must stress the pronunciation of perfect as ‘puh-fect‘.  The overall approach can be defined as follows:

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Project Partners Announced February 2, 2009

Posted by Jacquie Kelly in : Collaborative Tools, Trials, BCE, Project , 1 comment so far

We are pleased to announce that the following have been chosen to be partners in this project:

Unfortunately, the University of Hertfordshire (contact - Paul Findlay) have had to withdraw from the project.

The Project Team would like to thank Jane Aldred who set up the trial project at The University of Huddersfield.

The 8 partners are working on ‘Perfecting’ their trial proposals and further details will be posted here in early March.

The 8 represent a range of institutions, BCE contexts and tools to be trialled. We are really looking forward to working with them over the next 18 months and the Showcase event scheduled for June/July 2010 should be well worth attending.

Collaborative Tools to Support Business and Community Engagement January 27, 2009

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Business and Community Engagement (BCE) is the strategic management of interactions, partnerships and transactions with partners and clients external to the institution. The scope of engagement includes the commercial sector, the public sector (including charities and trusts), the cultural landscape and the social and civic arena.

JISC, through its Advisory Services, is running a project to trial online collaborative tools to support Business and Community Engagement (BCE) activities within a range of institutional contexts. We are looking for partner institutions with an open and proactive outlook willing to run a trial in order to identify good practice, challenges and issues and to share lessons learned. Funding of up to £30,000 is available to partner institutions to contribute towards the cost of participating in the project. For further details of the call for Expressions of Interest (now closed) visit http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/bce/collab-tools-ceoi.

We  held our second round of  the selection process last week in Birmingham. This was in the form of ‘Pitch and Perfect’, where the proposers gave their Pitch and then through discussions with a panel we started the Perfect process. We intend to write-up this process as it proved to be a very useful technique in the selction process. So watch this space!

In the first week of February we will be in a position to publish the list of those institutions who have been successful in their bid to be part of this really exciting project.