University of the Arts London The University of the Arts London have been developing their project titled: OPEN-i: Developing an Online Community of Practice for Photojournalists and they have achieved much since the projects inception in March 2009. One of the first tasks was to recruit a Project Administrator and set up and initial editorial … Read more
New College Swindon The title of New College Swindon’s project is: Using CRM and Collaborative Tools with Business and Community Enterprise and the project commenced in December 2008. They have faced a number of challenges since it inception, one of which was the establishment of project team to include members of Business Services. This was … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
We are pleased to announce that the following have been chosen to be partners in this project: University of Leeds (contact – Brian McCaul) Northumbria University (contacts – Erik Bohemia, Chris Turnock) University of the Arts (contact – Paul Lowe) University of Glamorgan (contact – Pam Voisey) West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network led by the … Read more
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 … Read more