JISC Future Priorities

Group 1

E-book market
Embedding e-learning in institutions
‘If we could start from scratch – we wouldn’t start from here!’ – to do with what levels (institutional, national, international) we should tackle issues compared to what we are actually doing
JISC funding models – more imaginative – centres of expertise and other ideas
Geo-enabled environment + resource discovery – capture geographic data as we digitise content
Inter-operability – Tools and technology transfer (inside and outside HE)
Repositories – are they the right places to put stuff? If so, how do we make them compelling?
Data curation skills
Information literacy – needs to be embedded into schools
Open content agenda – sharing of resources – should this happen, how to enable?
Recruiting staff for JISC projects – JISC could develop a support mechanism, e.g. pool of CVs

Group 2

Open infrastructure supporting innovation and change – balance in IT departments between robustness and innovation not always there
Understand institutional barriers to change – what stops new working practices and new technology
Outsourcing models and shared services
Resource discovery – single point of entry
Inclusivity – digital divide agenda
Levels of service – service standards/expectiation (Keele wifi experience informing this!)
Burden of technolgoy – on the academic and support staff
Sustainability of projects

Group 3

Advice on staff roles
Denial of service ‘as default’ (Keele wifi experience again) – how can we help people (IT depts) make right decisions
Debate on mobile devices being ‘mandatory’ (or ‘expected’) of all students – we expect them to have ‘basics’ in terms of paper and pencil etc. why not computing devices
Setting minimum standards for institutions – what is the baseline?
Assessment – assessing educational processes as well as assessing outcomes
Sharing good practice – becomes harder as the sector becomes more competitive
Perhaps we should play down some areas? Debate at least around whether ‘open source’ and ‘open standards’ are goals in themselves – perhaps concetrate on communities of practice instead

Group 4

How to engage senior management – help sustainability of projects/services and understanding of relationship between service and development
JISC step outside comfort zone and engage with senior managers on their own turf
Make better use of existing contacts with Senior Managers to bring in others
Better and more detailed project resumes to be able to see easily what had worked and what hadn’t
Develop a sense of ‘technical authority’ – look at patterns of authority on internet
Make e-framework more accessible
Time gap between new technology initial implementation and actual takeup
Coordination of greater activity across a greater range of standards bodies
IPR copyright
Derived data IPR
Expert registry – how does a team locate expertise (if not via registry, some other method)
Place of technology in development of practice – it shouldn’t dominate or drive
Look at scalability of practice to development models

Overdue Ideas