City College Southampton: Striving for Gold with Moodle benchmarking scheme

.How do you answer the question: “How well is your VLE being used?” City College Southampton rose to the challenge with the creation, development and implementation of a highly motivational ‘Gold, Silver and Bronze’ benchmarking system to evaluate and recognise quality of content and activity on its College Moodle system. The results are impressive.

The Grimsby Institute Group: Making it easy for students to use their own devices to learn

The Grimsby Institute wanted to create an infrastructure that would enable staff and students to use more mobile technology to enhance learning. They have improved the wifi connectivity in college and streamlined the software used to access college areas, as well as encouraging individuals to use their own technology. So far this has had a positive impact on retention and simplified the support that the college needs to provide, as well as saving the organisation money through some strategic changes.

Tees Valley VLE Partnership: Collaboration success story

The Adult Education Services from six local authorities in the North East joined forces to set-up a shared virtual learning environment (VLE) called TeesLearn. It provides their learners with new and inspiring learning opportunities and supports them across a rural and wide geographical area.

Report on the Management and Administrative Computing Initiative - Vol II

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE INITIATIVE ON MANAGEMENT A~D ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING VOLUME II - REFERENCE MANUAL

REPORT ON THE INITIATIVE ON MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING VOLUME II

UNIVERSITY GRANTS COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE INITIATIVE ON MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMPUTING VOLUME II - REFERENCE MANUAL

Bibliographic Data Roadmap Group Meeting 1

The first meeting of a Jisc convened group to discuss action in the area of bibliographic data.

Bibliographic Data Roadmap Group Meeting 2

Notes from the second meeting of the Bibliographic Data Roadmap Group to discuss action on bibliographic data for libraries

MAC Report

Final Report

An early-warning system for TNE

This report for Jisc1 is based on feedback from the UK higher education (HE) sector on current (2014) transnational education (TNE) activities and future plans, including the locations of such activity. The exercise includes feedback on current and future TNE delivery modes. It is further based on feedback of a more technical nature, for example, on what the network is used for in TNE and how such IT operations are managed abroad. The resulting narrative is a synthesis of these two distinct voices from within UK higher education institutions (HEIs).

Cloud computing for research - final report

Curtis+Cartwright Consulting Ltd, working with the University of Surrey and Professor Charles Oppenheim, has been commissioned by Jisc to investigate Cloud Computing for Research. This document is the final report, and is accompanied by a briefing paper which provides advice targeted at researchers.