The second cluster meeting was held at the University of Huddersfield on 25 February 2010. The theme of the meeting was organisational culture and the aim was to discuss the cultures, processes and habits (within and across organisations) that the Trial Projects had come up against. There were questions raised with respect to engagement and … Read more
The project team are pleased to announce the appointment of Belanda Consulting to undertake two areas of work associated with evaluation. Dr. Jacqueline (‘Jay’) Dempster will be working closely with the project team to: evaluate the overall project and support the eight trial projects in evaluating their own areas of work. Consultant Helen Beetham will be working … Read more
The first cluster meeting was held on 19th January 2010 and hosted by The University of The Arts London. The theme was ‘Online Communities of Practice: maintaining interest’ and 5 Trial projects were represented. Paul Lowe introduced the topic drawing upon the work of Etienne Wenger. He made the point that Communities of Practice describe … Read more
The Trialling of Collaborative Online Tools for Business and Community Engagement Project (BCEct Project) The overall project aims to enhance the use and awareness of web technologies in collaborative practice undertaken by BCE practitioners across Further and Higher Education. The project is funded by the JISC BCE Programme, and runs from 1st July 2008 to … 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