Institutional Innovation

The project final report is here as a pdf. All the preceding synthesis reports can be found below.

Appendix 1: SSBR Outputs Table, attached as 3 PDF files

• CREATE-SSBR_outputs WP1
• CREATE-SSBR_outputs WP2
• CREATE-SSBR_outputs WP3

Appendix 2: SSBR Work Plan

• Attached as .doc FinalSSBR-Phase2-BR-Work_PackagesDaysV7-1

Appendix 3 Budget (restricted)

Appendix 4: Event feedback sheet, generic

• Attached as .pdf SSBR event evaluation Generic

Appendix 5: BR Project Outputs and Activities Table

• Attached as .pdf BR Projects Table

We undertook synthesis of the programme in three cycles. All the reports are linked to from this page.  A preliminary thematic report (“Cycle 0″) was published in late 2009.

All reports below are PDFs

Synthesis Cycle 0 – December 2009

Initial Synthesis Report An approach to understanding institutional innovation in higher education

Synthesis Cycle 1 – July 2010

Thematic report

Cycle 1 Thematic Report Strategic drivers and areas of IT concern: a taxonomy of institutional innovation

Validation process

Synthesis Cycle 1 Methodology
Synthesis Cycle 1 Validation Stage

Portfolio of exemplars

JISC Dissemination Agendas: portfolio of exemplars This report takes the ten JISC thematic dissemination agendas and illustrates these with exemplars drawn from the projects.

Green ICT projects

Green ICT Outputs

Synthesis Cycle 2 – December 2010

Thematic report

Cycle 2 Thematic Report Flexible systems for responsive, effective and efficient institutions

Validation process

Validation of Synthesis Cycle 2 took place through meetings and correspondence with JISC Programme Managers and two on-line Innovation Seminars Conducted through Elluminate:

• Emergent Technologies
• Institutional Change

Portfolio of exemplars

A collection of 9 Senior Management Briefing Papers

• Briefing 1 Mobile technologies
• Briefing 2 Podcasting and electronic lecture capture
• Briefing 3 Modernising IT provision
• Institutional Innovation and Change Overview
• Briefing 4 Innovation and institutional change
• Briefing 5 Tools supporting institutional development
• Briefing 6 Management of institutional information
• Briefing 7 Staff and course development
• Briefing 8 Students and institutions
• Briefing 9 Technologies that support retention

Synthesis Cycle 3 – March 2011

Thematic report (due 18 February)

Cycle 3 Thematic report: Institutional Innovation Issues from Three Perspectives the Learner, the Employer, the Institution

Validation process

Validation of Synthesis Cycle 3 took place through an investigation of key issues conducted by means of an online questionnaire supplemented by interviews with key respondents in the field. The issues questions are set out in a document (pdf here).

Two on-line Innovation Seminars were Conducted through Elluminate. The first helped shape the key issues for investigation. The second drew on the key issues and elaborated our understandings.

• Employer engagement
• Workforce development

Final Synthesis cycle

The final synthesis outputs are available on this website as a feed from the projects database, and attached here as a pdf.

This page is for the purpose of stimulating discussion and cross checking themes that have been set out in
the third Institutional Innovation programme, Thematic Report, available here (pdf).

The embedded form below is a questionnaire. It has 7 pages but can be answered quickly. It shouldn’t take more than about 20 minutes. You can be anonymous if you wish, we only ask you to say from what perspective you are completing the form. We will keep the form live for a brief period for collection of information. Subsequently the questions will be used as a discussion guide for follow up conversations about the themes. Please complete the whole form. If you bail out early, your responses will not be saved.

Thank you for answering!

The team and especially me, needs a tutorial in the clean access, sharing and modifying of Google Docs (as rich data source) on line. we have had a right faff with uploaded documents. We got there in the end, but it took us some time.

For me part of the problem comes with logging into “my Google account”. My browsers have cookies for 3 of them (Brookes, personal, jisc-ssbr). Emails get forwarded to Brookes (Google) mail. I click on the link in the Brookes email and all sorts of different behaviours ensue depending what browser I am in, and what other Google accounts may be open in one browser window or an other.

Another problem is the sharing of documents and folders.

It appears that for shares to work you need to be explicitly named in the share. Just giving all people in jisc-ssbr domain permission does not seem to cascade through the personal menu system. Paul shared a folder with everyone in the domain, but I couldn’t see that “shared” folder until he explicitly named me in the share.

Another issue is to assure that we manage our underlying – baseline – data with security in mind.

Which has just reminded me about backing up. Can I please be assured that our Google site is appropriately risk-managed and backed up. What happens when Google changes ToS?

Because: we already publish some of our Google docs to the web and link to that in a table of our own outputs. We did this with the First Cycle of Synthesis. Please can you follow the links in this document Synthesis Methodology Cycle 1 Stage 2 V1 from last July to be reminded how it works. Note that this is a lumpy underlying URL:

• https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1c8M89p9MAq_lc7-YWM0WhKGPRK_r4VNpm-GZo_FxVi8

Do we want to adopt a consistent URL shortening service? Google’s own?

In the document, You will see the links below the second figure in the Synthesis Methodology Cycle 1 Stage 2 V1 paper resolve to current (not July) versions of these documents. They are updated dynamically. In the case of the big Cycle 1 Synthesis spreadsheet, the “Final Outputs” sheet, accessible from the published version on the web is a tremendous resource. We need to replicate appropriate parts of this resource for Cycle 2 and 3 of the programme synthesis work. This is starting with the new Google spreadsheet: SSBR Phase 3 projects. Similarly lumpy URL:

• http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AoOrKAwMcCgAdC00SXRPUl9qaUpRbGY4clBobXBRX2c&hl=en&authkey=CPPnusII

We need to expose the links to the synthesis reports as well as some key underlying data, keyed to the work package identifier and ensure they are:

• persistent and/or update appropriately and that, ideally, a record of changes (change/version control) is available; we may want to take pdf “impressions” from time to time and archive them, such as the the first synthesis report.
• discoverable – even by JISC programme managers, let alone University PVCs
• searchable
• navigable
• scalable to the most effective level of granularity

Can we be assured that this is a platform that will be stable for 3 years from April 2011

Gathering resources.

Will annotate in time

OER http://www.caledonianacademy.net/spaces/oer/

Sharing eLearning Content: a synthesis and commentary. Project Report. http://ie-repository.jisc.ac.uk/46/

CRM http://jisc.cetis.ac.uk/support/relationship-management

SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONAL DIGITAL PRESERVATION & ASSET MANAGEMENT: A SUMMARY OF THE JISC DPAM PROGRAMME SYNTHESIS

http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a793004357&db=all

Here we present the first synthesis report

Institutional Innovation synthesis of programme outcomes

The pdf can be downloaded here:

Institutional Innovation Synthesis of Programme Outcomes

[apologies for formatting irritation - grrrrr]

This post introduces an approach to understanding innovation in higher education institutions through the perspective of the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme (here referred to as InIn).

This is a work in progress, and draws on previous postings on synthesis.

The post is in three broad parts. The first part addresses the question, “why?” Why change? Underlying conditions place pressure on institutions from many directions and institutions respond in various ways. The second part addresses the question, “what?” What is changing in higher education? What are the broad themes that can help us see the underlying shifts not only in practice but also in the shape and purpose of higher education institutions. And finally the third part looks briefly at the question, “how?” How are we effecting – bringing about – change in higher education institutions?

This report is an attempt to explain the thinking behind the new database: http://ssbrdb.jisclab.net/ and the mindmap visualisation, from which the database and this report derive. Click the image for a big one.

The report is possible because of the great work that is being done by the 40+ projects in the programme and the efforts of the support team in trying to get behind the day-to-day to understand the real drivers for change, and the real consequences of changing. Thank you all.

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On 12 November the JISC Institutional Innovation Support & Synthesis project conducted an upbeat online programme meeting where over 70 participants addressed the pragmatics of institutional innovation. The aim of the day was for the 40 projects in the programme to consider the challenges and tensions of institutional innovation, to look at approaches and solutions to innovating in institutions, and to consider the sustainability of innovation.

The meeting, titled “Institutional Pragmatics” took, unsurprisingly, a pragmatic view.

We considered the strategic drivers for change. At the project level it is easy to lose sight of the big picture and stay focused on the details of implementation. This meeting was an opportunity to come up for air and consider how our projects might drive (or be driven by):

• Economic recovery and public funding
• Quality standards and reputation
• International responsiveness
• Social mobility, equality, democracy

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Today I gave a presentation entitled Multimedia for academic purposes at Oxford Brookes eL@B meeting. eL@B is Brookes’ elearning SIG. The purpose of my presentation was to contextualise the substantial element of the meeting, which was to showcase lecture capture work undertaken by the School of Health and Social Care.

In my presentation I drew on examples from the Institutional Innovation Programme and Users and Innovation Programme to illustrate the wide range of multimedia academic practice. I used FreeMind to construct the presentation. (Click the image for a large one)

The presentation is behind a log in on our wiki (sorry). But I put the slides on ~ PPT, Slideshare and the links from the mindmap are below:

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The question of whether you can rely on Twitter to filter your reading is problematic. Yes following 8,000 people (or however many) will probably serve to satisfy most information needs. I am sure that by some number (10? 100? 1000?) a Twitter follower will be deep into a long tail of duplication.

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