Institutional Innovation

ECCILES

The ECCILES project aims to find new solutions to the problems of power consumption and heat control in computer classrooms and server rooms using a systematic approach to innovation called TRIZ. Focusing on one University site, the project will investigate, in depth, the contributing factors to the problem of energy usage associated with educational computing. From this analysis we aim to generate a set of viable solutions appropriate to the site. A second strand will investigate how to improve temperature management in computer rooms including classrooms, with the minimum energy increases. The project seeks to engage the whole site community in contributing to energy reduction.

SMART

This project will investigate, develop and implement processes and tools to help us be smarter in support of work based learning, particularly through mentors, with a key objective being to produce an appropriate model for the Management of Change to support mentors, in order to improve the experience of work-based learning students. The mentor is key to effective Work Based Learning. We have used mentors in the workplace to support students for many years, particularly on our health-related courses. The guidance and support provided to these mentors is well-documented in the course validation documents and has been used as an example of good practice for mentors now supporting students on foundation degrees in the workplace. The nature of the support we provide to all students, especially those in the workplace, has changed since the introduction of various e-learning methods. In our Higher Education Academy Pathfinder Project last year we investigated the issues concerning general, technical, academic and personal support for students, mentors and lecturers to enable students to gain most benefit from the experience of work based learning. An outcome from this project was a change to the way in which the centre supports the faculties, ie a central support person being embedded in each faculty for a proportion of their time to give more direct support. This work is still ongoing. We have recently embarked on a major IT Transformation Project with our partners HP and Cisco. Much of this work is invisible to faculties, but part of it is explicitly supporting the work of the faculties. Both Society & Health and Enterprise & Innovation have projects directly related to e-learning, utilising Cisco Webex, Unified Communications and Tandberg video conferencing. The project for Creativity & Culture is indirectly related to e-learning: in the first instance the Digital Media Publishing Hub will be for students producing digital media as part of their course, but phase two of this project will facilitate the use of various media in support of elearning. These new facilities for e-learning, used to support work based learning, have provided us with an extended challenge for support. These facilities require us to be smarter with our support model, as increasing support staff numbers is not an option.

iBorrow

iBorrow will allow users of a new Library and Learning Centre to borrow a notebook computer as easily as picking a book from a shelf. It will provide a large-scale demonstration of how thin-client notebooks with location-aware technology can enable the University to not only provide no-fuss access to a full range of software and learning resources but also effectively manage the configuration of the facilities within the large flexible learning spaces of its new learning centre. By overlaying location information ith additional data it can also provide insights into the way students use electronic and virtual resources at an individual level or within a group context and thus answer the questions that arise when designing new learning spaces.

iBorrow (BR1c)

The iBorrow project has provided a demonstration of the use of mobile PC resources within a large-scale, open-learning space. In the new 35m St Augustine's library and learning centre at CCCU, 200 thin-client netbook computers are available for students and staff to borrow and use, "as easily as a book". This proposal is therefore to fund the preparation, for the benefit of the wider HE community, of a detailed and in-depth report focused on the large-scale deployment of netbook computers, containing both technical details of the deployment (and supporting virtualisation) and a business-case evaluation on the value-for-money of the selected solution against competing technologies.

ELTAC

The overall aim of the project is to develop and implement a university-wide automated lecture capture system which informs the university's new build programme, enhances the current estate, increases active participation in lectures by linking them to CUOnline[1]6 and social software environments and makes lectures available for replay via a variety of mobile devices.

ELTAC (BR1b)

The ELTAC BR project will add specific enhancements to the Coventry support site for lecture capture with the aims of disseminating useful outputs from the original ELTAC project to an emerging community of users. This will include harvesting insights, answers and exemplar uses from other users and formalising the development of an international community of practice in lecture capture.

LIW

'LIW for academic staff' develops an existing Location Independent Working (LIW) scheme operating within the University's wholly-owned commercial company, Coventry University Enterprises Ltd. (CUE) to make it suitable for academic staff in teaching roles. CUE has successfully implemented LIW for over 50% (currently this amounts to c.75 people) of its staff. The project aligns the cultural change necessary at individual, departmental and institutional levels with the application of tried and tested technologies to develop a comprehensive e-working scheme for academic and non-academic staff.

LIW (BR1a)

The LIW Benefits Realisation project aims to: 1. exchange knowledge and embed new practice in other HE institutions through process consultancy 2. develop a range of scenarios to broaden the "relatability" and relevance of our LIW experience within the sector 3. enhance the existing LIW project websites to create a fuller sector-wide knowledge exchange as a step towards creating a sustainable community of interest 4. enrich existing project reports though the experience of other institutions.

RARE-IDC

The RARE-IDC Project will build on work already underway throughout Hertfordshire University's estates to explore the issues of reducing energy usage for cooling data centres and the reuse of heat generated from ICT equipment. As well as contributing to reducing the cost of ownership of University estates, the RARE-IDC project will provide environmental sustainability with innovative green practices for minimising the carbon footprint, which can transfer across to all new ICT space. The project works within the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme and will help to take forward the national development of the Green Agenda, demonstrating innovation and good practice, building knowledge and experience, which can be shared across institutions.

HELLO

The HELLO Project has two key elements: 1. To develop existing resources and assessment materials across 40% of the HE provision in the College in light of the success of the Moodle developments made during the WoLF Project. 2. To introduce an institutional social network site to encourage: * HE students across the organisation to build their own networks and groups and to encourage communication between courses. * To provide links with other HE Institutions for students contemplating continuing their HE studies. * To allow employers to access the social network to enable them to promote their organisations, join relevant groups and advertise work placements. * To allow Industry Experts to access the social network to enable them to offer advice and guidance and to participate in Forums and FAQs.

HELLO PSN

Hello's BR project plans to continue its aim of supporting students with the transition from Further Education (FE) to Higher Education (HE) via online peer support via the creation of HELLO HENet. Focusing, initially on the existing Foundation Degree, HNC and HND courses an analysis of engagement and of the student experience will take place. The project hopes that if the outputs and outcomes are achieved, the support network can be used by other students contemplating a course at other universities.

FLAME

Project FLAME will install production-scale services for institutional Devolved Authority Management and Attribute Release Policy control, and a facility for ad-hoc Virtual Organisation Management. These services will be supported by an Enterprise Directory (being implemented by LSE independently of this project) and be integrated with a number of key target applications (including VLE and Institutional Repository). The project will make these services available to the entire end user population of LSE, and in parallel will mount an institution-wide awareness campaign to inform users about Access & Identity Management issues and personal Attribute Release Policy. It will conduct an in-depth study of User Attitudes and Behaviour (across the LSE user population) involved in interacting with online services and Identity & Access Management.

MUSKET

Workforce development is key agenda for addressing the skills needs for the UK knowledge economy. Professional education however needs to be made more relevant to business needs and delivery methods need to be suited to the employer rather than the HEI. Building on the recently established network of employers and other FE colleges, this project aims to support employer engagement and workforce planning requirements by providing a CRM based integrated view of employer based, professional and tertiary sector education. It will deliver a system that will map course descriptions from professional providers, employer specific training and skills to validated university programmes and will also support employer-led learner route planning.

ID MAPS

ID-MAPS will produce a single logical institutional data infrastructure based on the University's corporate ERP system, augmented by a diverse range of localised systems such as VLEs, and delivered as a service supported by access policies and defined data interfaces. This will produce the accurate, timely data management that is key both to realising the full benefit of current and future investment in systems and to delivering extensive personalisation of data to the end user. Benefits will be demonstrated by pilots which will utilise the data infrastructure and exploit Web 2.0 technologies to deliver a rich user experience via a variety of platforms.

JISC SSBR

The purpose of this project is to deliver Support, Synthesis and Benefits Realisation (SSBR) services to the JISC Institutional Innovation Programme and its constituent projects.

CAIRO

Through use of TOGAF 8, BizzDesign and ArchiMate, this project seeks to define an enterprise architecture focused on the Business Processes and the Systems and Data structures which support them. Roehampton University has a standard best-of-breed structure for its major computer systems, the sort of structure which can, over time, become difficult to change in response to business stimuli. Over the 18 month project Roehampton will carry out reviews of its business processes and computer systems in the context of the TOGAF 8 EA Framework and Service Oriented Architecture. The project will both assist in the evaluation of the methodology in an HE context and provide Roehampton with a more agile business and systems infrastructure.

MCMS

MCMS (BR1b)

This proposal seeks engage more institutions in the data mining of institutional data sources to provide “Intelligent Data Support” to HE management. It proposes to survey HEIs to find out what they are already doing, undertake 2 workshops to disseminate and consult with other institutions and produce a set of supporting materials via a website/wiki.

TELSTAR (OU)

HE/FE community and the OU are facing the problem of integrating legacy systems into institution-wide VLEs ...systems integration represents a significant and growing challenge... (MUSIC 2007) Current OU course-based resource repository, MyOpenLibrary (MOL), although popular is not scalable beyond isolated courses and it is not possible to integrate it with the suite of tools within the OUVLE. We are not able to offer the quality and consistency of service provision required or to meet fully emerging requirements of the lifelong learner. Therefore, it's important to integrate Library systems with those other institutional systems for a better user experience. "How can The Open University manage the process of integrating legacy systems into a recently introduced institution-wide VLE?"

TELSTAR (OU) BR1b

Developing a toolkit from the outputs of the TELSTAR project and a launch event for 50 delegates.

ITS 4 SEA

This project addresses a key area of institutional concern for the Higher Education Sector, that of delivering effective and efficient summative e-assessment in a flexible, secure and accessible way to learners. The exemplar will use thin client (Sun Ray) technology linked with smart card identification to implement a new, flexible, personalisable and scalable system for summative e-assessment. This system will have secure integration with other key University processes (e.g. student records, module registration, and examination scheduling), will be able to deliver standard network services and aspects of formative assessment when not in use for summative purposes, will provide a personal assessment experience to learners, and will be more accessible for our disabled students.

WELL

This project will develop, implement and evaluate a model for module/unit delivery and assessment which integrates personal, organisational (of the employer) and institutional technologies that will support personalised learning and also satisfy University accreditation and progression requirements. The model will be piloted with learners from our Escalate programme, engaged on programmes through their employer in two Academic Schools at the University of Bradford.

Academic SN

This project will develop a social networking for academics and students, integrated with our institutional VLE, offering affordances similar to consumer social networks, but targeted to academic applications, with a focus on enhancing teaching and learning.

MeAoT

The University of Cambridge is investigating the utility of modular tools for teaching administration tasks as an alternative to centralized IT systems. Two tools, building on existing work, will be developed; a system for calculating the teaching load on faculty staff in Engineering, and a tool for registration/modification of papers the student wishes to sit at the end of the year within the Physics Department. We will develop these modules, and work towards their adoption by 6 other departments with requirements analysis, customization and evangelism.

STEEPLE (BR1b)

The vision of the Steeple project is to streamline enterprise level podcasting and support a viable community around scalable, enterprise-level solutions, in the areas of automated video/audio workflows (including processing and delivery). Following several successful dissemination events and rapid developments in podcasting with the HE sector the project has successfully gained community interested from several institutions. The project had already produced an online podcasting booklet to support institutions http://www.steeple.org.uk/wiki/Introduction. This provided an ideal opportunity for a benefits realisation project. See http://www.steeple.org.uk/wiki/Steeple_Benefits_Realisation. The idea is to support a community of institutions in the effective institution-wide use of audio and video podcasting, starting with 10 interested institutions, which are shown at http://www.steeple.org.uk/wiki/Steeple:Community_Portal. The project is also linking up with several other projects including the lecture capture project (ELTAC) at Coventry University. The existing web resource will be further developed through the partners, to create additional support resources and provide further examples of institutional approaches to podcasting. A series of hands-on workshops and online webinars are being scheduled to support institutions and provide support for the tools that will make take-up easier. The project will also look at long term sustainability.

TAG

TAG: The Alternative Guide (to UCLan) will be based on an interactive website, which will provide a dynamic platform for projects within UCLan to support students in their transition into higher education. The tool will enable students to access peer experiences of all aspects of university life, allowing potential students to develop realistic expectations of HE. The tool will guide students to identify the skills and attributes required in HE and how to start developing them prior to arrival through resources identifies though the TAG site. The tool will allow students to access an interactive tour of UCLan to enable them to become orientated with the campus prior to arrival. The social aspect of the site will utilise Web 2.0 technology to encourage students to develop relationships and peer support and to share concerns or seek advice to support them in their transition. TAG aims to encourage students to take ownership of their learning and experience at university. It also provides an opportunity for students to develop their employability by contributing to the TAG project as either an extra curricular activity or as a client for assessment.

TAG (BR1b)

This proposed BR project aims to produce a synthesis of the outcomes from the weCAMP and iBorrow projects that will demonstrate to other institutions how patterns of learning behaviours in technology-rich learning centres could be captured and better understood. This understanding and knowledge of the emerging patterns is vital to our abilities to achieve more effective uses and planning of new learning spaces and centres heavily invested by many HE and FE institutions.

TAG (BR1c)

The aims of this benefits realisation project are to explore how social networking, the internet, mobile technology etc. can support international students and students from diverse ethnic backgrounds and to develop and improve content and resources to be used on sites such as TAG.

TELSTAR (UCLAN)

The TELSTAR Project will provide a technology enabled Learning Framework accessible via a web portal that addresses the needs of work-based learners and their employers. It will include the facilitation of the accreditation of learners' prior experience, credit recognition of in-house and learning provider courses and negotiated credit awarded learning units. Learners may mix-and-match a combination of these courses together with standard university modules to gain an HE level qualification from Foundation through to Masters level degrees. The web portal will also provide a competencies assessment tool, ePortfolio, CV builder, access to the learner community and learner support. Ultimately the focus of this project is to enhance innovation and productivity and deliver economic and social benefit to employees and employers.

SISP

Recent years have seen a massive increase in ICT use in HE/FE and a significant rise in energy consumption attributable to this use. Estates divisions at UEA and elsewhere have also been implementing innovative solutions to provide more sustainable heating, cooling and power. This project will investigate and implement energy saving strategies for ICT services using a combination of IT and estates based measures. A feasibility study for using UEA's low carbon power generation facilities and green field site to host a regional data centre for HE/FEs will also be undertaken.

Co-genT

This project will exploit the use of technology to support the co-generation of academic curricula by employers and academics, in particular, by embedding graduate attributes and employment-related skills within an institutional pedagogic framework, the Gloucestershire Shell Framework, for the creation of demand-led continuing professional development (CPD) and degree courses. The project promotes the role of technology in supporting and developing BCE initiatives through the integration of systems, providing for flexibility, accessibility and the personalisation. Co-genT will establish methodologies for BCE supported by system integration and configurable tools. These will be tested and evaluated by the project partners.

SLAP

The University of Gloucestershire's Strategic Plan highlighted the need for change in order for the institution to be successful and sustainable into the future. In particular it outlines specific threats to the University that include "Procedures and Processes that are inflexible and cumbersome". A subsequent review by external consultants recommended that processes associated with the student life cycle should be reviewed, starting with enquiry, application and enrolment.

CPD Eng

The concept behind the project is to integrate systems that support personalised IPD/CPD, applicable to professional frameworks. The project will result in the creation of an exemplar system and identify key features in the flexible pathways to qualifications within the engineering professional framework at the University that facilitate the successful development of CPD-Eng. This has the potential to be applied to frameworks relevant to other professional bodies and institutions.

CPD Eng (BR1d)

The CPD-Eng project has developed a pilot system that integrates with established systems to create a seamless, learner-centred toolset (MyShowcase). This is toolset is located within eBridge - the University of Hull institutional VLE (Sakai)– with access given to stakeholders though the University's IDM system. The project will support take-up by institutions to use the product (MyShowcase) from the CPDEng project. The project is engaging with several networks of users: A cluster around the SAMSON Project at he University of Nottingham, the Moodle User Community based around a JISC RSC Yorkshire & Humber cluster and a Foundation Degree Forward cluster; and the Open University.

CCLiP

CCLiP will offer an enhanced and expanded information service about CPD provision from local HE and cultural organisations to the creative/cultural industries. Building on the CPD Noticeboard - an online system based on technology developed by the JISC project "The Learning Matrix", CCLiP will display courses, events and training opportunities in one place for the benefit of employers, employees, mentors and other independent learners by the:

--> use of a common standard, XCRI, for provision descriptions
--> automated information collection from institutions and cultural organisations;
--> identification and addressing of inter- and intra-institutional barriers to the production and sharing of such standards-based information, to ensure long-term service and the partnership sustainability;
--> improved capacity to gather information about CPD requirements from users.

CCLiP (BR1b)

The project will work in collaboration with existing centres if expertise in implementing the XCRI CAP specification yo embed good practice in the management and exchange of course advertising information across the education sector for the benefit of learners seeking the right opportunity and providers recruiting students. The project will produce a knowledge base of existing case studies and support materials and a readiness framework to support institutions seeking to implement. Instuitutions will be supported through a series of workshops and using existing expertise. The project will work with partners in the CCLIP project aroudn Lieverpool, the University of Bolton, the SAMSON project atteh University of Nottingham and the West Yorkshire LLN.

SAMSON

SAMSON seeks to integrate processes for employer engagement which are currently supported across both partner HEIs in numerous, separate pockets of activity, mostly with low levels of use of technology. It will provide a joined-up experience for Nottingham postgraduates on work placements, for employers and employees interacting with the universities for CPD, and for HE staff developing employer engagement activities. The technical developments prioritise re-using working systems and transforming existing data in real time into open standards, moving via web services. Some ontology work will be provided in one area, to match competences and learning outcomes between academia and business.

SAMSON (BR1b)

SAMSON plan to extend and explore the benefits of the architecture they have designed and built to a further institution (University of Derby) through the engagement of a sizeable employer (Scott Wilson Ltd) working both regionally and nationally. The team will produce an institutional briefing summarising results of investigation of data sources and feasibility of development for University of Derby, including assignment dates, assignment tracking and course content by module. Within this, there will be a section on the feasibility of using the PebblePad and Mahara ePortfolio systems within this environment.

BRII

BRII will enable efficient sharing of research management information using semantic web technologies. Ontologies and taxonomies will define and describe data objects (eg people, research groups, funding agencies, publications, research "themes") to forge connections between them and provide web-based services to disseminate and reuse this information in new contexts. It will create efficiencies, greater accuracy of data, and better discovery of research activities at Oxford. University data sources will include academic departments and central services. Half the project will be devoted to stakeholder input, collaboration and 'buy-in' aimed at evolving current work practices and processes.

Erewhon

Erewhon is an investigation into the deployment of existing university computing resources to mobile platforms, coupled with the implementation of relevant location based services and access to the Oxford VLE.

Erewhon Packaging

The Erewhon project has a number of universally relevant outputs which the team believe could be implemented across the sector to harness the exploding growth in mobile/ubiquitous computing. Two primary outputs have been identified which could best be used elsewhere. Namely the "Gaboto" platform - a highly capable geo-spatial store; such a system is essential for any institution wishing to implement Location Based Services ("LBS") and the "Mobile Oxford" platform which provides a wealth of information and LBS by linking in over a dozen data sources to provide what has become a highly popular and publicised system delivering useful data to staff, students and the citizens of Oxford.

Low Carbon ICT

The purpose of this project is to provide a practical exemplar of how an institution can implement both the policies and the technologies to conserve energy used by desktop and server hardware with the minimum of disruption to users and system administrators alike.

Mobile Oxford

The Erewhon project was set up to look at two areas: demonstration of delivery of university services on mobile devices, and the collection and management of geolocation data for university resources. As part of this work, the project team (with the full support of the University of Oxford) has gone a stage further and created a mobile portal service exposing a range of geolocated (and other) data. This gives an opportunity to work on benefits realisation in a very concrete way, by showing how we can port the service to another institution. The team will take the mobile portal and implement it to the same service level at Oxford Brookes University.

STEEPLE

The vision for the Steeple project is to streamline enterprise level podcasting and support a viable community around scalable, enterprise-level solutions, in the areas of automated video/audio capture, processing and delivery. Educational video and audio is undergoing a step change, posing new requirements on institutional workflows that have high overlap between institutions. Particularly the availability of affordable recording techniques as well as new distribution channels has changed the way in which audio and video visual material is used in UK higher education. The Steeple project will look at the processes supporting effective use of audio and video ("podcasts") using emergent technologies that can streamline complex audio-visual encoding activities through enterprise level services. Steeple will increase efficiency in creating audio visual materials for teaching, research and outreach. The project is a partnership between the University of Oxford, Cambridge and the Open University.

Wake-up-on-LAN

The proposal aims to work with Liverpool University, JISC Advisory Services, SustainIT and UCISA to improve awareness of wake-up on LAN technologies to reduce power consumption (and therefore costs) for institutions. This will be achieved by packaging and promoting existing approaches, using web sites, social networking and working closely with stakeholder bodies (i.e. JISC services and UCISA). They will explore two technical feasibility approaches to delivering WOL via national services with Janet and Logica.

ASSET (BR1b)

This ASSET BR project will build on the research into using multimedia (video and audio) in an innovative way to enhance students' learning from feedback carried out at the University of Reading by allowing a focused mini-ASSET trial at University of Plymouth. The team hope, amongst other things, to produce a series of 'how to' guide materials, each focusing on different aspects of the project at UoP, such as 'how to' engage IT services; staff; students; make effective videos; provide effective feedback; and use feedback effectively.

PineAPPLe

The aim of Pineapple is to bring clarity and apply structure to current Accredited Prior Learning (APL) work, policies and practice carried out in the University of Plymouth Colleges regional partnership of Further Education Colleges. Gaps will then be identified and, where possible, filled. Methodologies will be developed to create APL processes pertinent to multiple stakeholders and record such activities and their outcomes. This data will be stored and accessible by the individuals concerned to create their own APL portfolio and a meta-analysis will enable this information to become a community resource of processes and their associated outcomes. Around this, a programme of community development and advocacy will be developed.

PineAPPLe (BR1d)

ASSET

This project will tackle the sector-wide issue of providing timely, quality feedback to students through the development of an interactive resource, "ASSET". ASSET will utilize the principles of social software to facilitate the development of new communities of learning between students and staff, which will support dialogue centred on the fundamental issue of what 'good' feedback/feed-forward actually means to both students and staff. This work aligns with our institution's Learning and Teaching Strategy, which emphasises the importance of actively engaging students with their learning. In addition it complements a number of pedagogic initiatives currently taking place within the University.

ASSET (BR1c)

Taking into account the dissatisfied results from successive National Student Surveys regarding feedback, The ASSET project, led by the University of Reading (UoR), is one of a number of initiatives that aims to tackle the sector-wide issue of enhancing feedback provision to students as well as focusing on the bigger picture of feedback by also acknowledging the problems staff face in terms of engaging students with feedback. This BR project expands on the work already completed by the team and will involve running national workshops, creating online activities, producing guidelines and a series of video case studies.

weCAMP

The project addresses a key area of institutional concern, that of effective planning for and use of future learning spaces. We will develop a Web-based interactive campus visualisation modelling platform openly accessible to all stakeholders associated with the University's planning and design process to effect participation and collaboration. A major benefit is the ability to visualize scenarios being considered, aiding the communication with senior management and informing the decision making process. The e-modelling platform will also enable the University of Sheffield (UoS) to acquire and preserve over time its own organizational memory and knowledge in effective planning and uses of future learning spaces.

weCamp AHE-I

This proposed BR project aims to produce a synthesis of the outcomes from the weCAMP and iBorrow projects that will demonstrate to other institutions how patterns of learning behaviours in technology-rich learning centres could be captured and better understood. This understanding and knowledge of the emerging patterns is vital to our abilities to achieve more effective uses and planning of new learning spaces and centres heavily invested by many HE and FE institutions.

e-Assignment

Although digital drop boxes for student submissions exist in VLEs they are often incomplete solutions. Building on previous work by the University of Southampton to provide a web-based environment for electronic submission, marking and administration of open-ended assignments. This project aims to provide an on-line environment for administration, marking and feedback of electronically submitted open-ended student assignments (e.g. essays). This will include linking to academic integrity software i.e. the TurnItIn service.

EASiHE

A number of technical and policy issues are of concern within the University around e-assessment, including: an increasing need for interoperability; migration from legacy systems; quality assurance through item and test statistics; AER (additional educational requirements) and accessibility issues; provision of mathematical notation in science and engineering questions; and, most importantly, student and staff engagement with the relevant technologies (such as Web 2.0 and mobile devices) and services. The University seeks funding to accelerate the process of both implementing an open source, service based solution to institutional e-assessment and addressing institutional change by engaging academics and students in co-design and co-deployment.

EASiHE (BR1b)

The EASiHE project for formative e-assessment takes the JISC-funded 'EdSpace' repository and elements of the 'Faroes' project to provide 'Web 2.0' content and services to users. Bournemouth & Poole College are keen to explore the potential that video-based formative assessments can bring for all their students and as part of the benefits Realisation Project, BPC would take and adapt the EASiHE repository, adding British Sign Language videos that can be used for formative assessments. BSL students would use EASiHE to self-assess their readiness for summative assessments by accessing tutor-uploaded questions that use signing videos explaining a scenario or providing a commentary and the student would then answer multiple choice comprehension questions to check that they have understood the signed information. The repository would be used by students to upload their signed answers to questions posed and these answers would be peer assessed by others on the course, further fostering collaborative learning.

EdShare

This proposal aims to promote and support the EdShare respository. They will work with Worcester University, Open University, the Southampton based HEA Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Subject Centre and a local consortium (Solent, Winchester, Portsmouth, Southampton) to promote and support take-up of EdShare. The project will be sustained via the existing ePrints repository support service who will take-on the support of EdShare.

EdSpace

VLEs have proved to be useful tools in facilitating staff in organising educational resources and activities in a hierarchical structure representing the structure of Programmes and Units. While they are excellent vehicles for delivery of materials, they are not ideal mechanisms for the management and curation of materials. There is an urgent need for a repository which focuses on the educational process and the storage, retrieval and sharing of educational materials which can be used to populate VLEs.

TELPWD

The project aims to establish an all-Wales Centre of Workforce Development as recommended in the recent study by Middlesex University, (Nov 2008), commissioned by UWIC as part of a HEFCW sponsored project on Workforce Development in Wales. The Project will consist of four streams within the embrace of such a centre: work-based delivery in the Cardiff School of Management, UWIC; Dental Technology (Centre for Dental Technology, UWIC); Inter-professional Studies (Regulation of Care Services Award), Centre for Applied Social Sciences, UWIC; and Learning Coaches in the Department of Professional Development, Cardiff School of Education, UWIC.

i-WoBLE

This project will enhance workforce development through the design of an innovative model of using virtual learning environments to support work-based learning. The VLE will create online communities where participants can capture reflections, communicate ideas and feedback on learning, which will meaningfully underpin face-to-face interactions when they occur. Irrespective of the length, location and format of the various types of WBL, stakeholders will be assured of consistent support that uses an appropriate mix of face to face and online approaches to ensure the quality of their experience. This project will create effective communities for learning and exchange where all stakeholders can contribute to the development of the work-based and lifelong learning activities of the University.

twoLER

twoLER is investigating the climate under which the open, collaborative and participatory environment found on the web 'Web 2.0' can be used to achieve institutional goals. Student interest in Web 2.0 and consumer technology is a given, what needs to be demonstrated is where, when and how this energy and imagination can deliver elements of value to the institution. The challenge is to recognize and propagate valuable student work; to integrate the web 2.0 environment with the core back-office and teaching and learning systems. The project will also investigate and implement solutions for key areas of concern: on data quality, constant beta and organisational change issues.

ePP SME

This project will provide the HE sector with reusable models and resources for an e-portfolio based pedagogy for SMEs. Such a pedagogy will take account of the particular conditions of SME employers and learners, namely: shortage of time, prior informal learning, need to match individual learning with needs of the enterprise, need for flexible delivery, quality assured, opportunities to record and build achievement, need for confidentiality and for ease of access to e-learning and feedback.

ePP SME (BR1d)