JISC provides digital solutions for UK education and research.
Content includes topics such as ten search engines for researchers that go beyond google.
The site includes guides to open access for example the introduction to open access.
The site is also useful for those managing research data.
Focusing on resource efficiency and carbon reduction, this project sought to develop a simple and low-cost system for allocation of estates management maintenance jobs, as well as a carbon-cost register for recording savings made by webinar-based meetings and training. and a Moodle-based Health & Safety staff awareness training course to reduce the resource costs of delivering this training.
This project aimed to achieve a greener future by getting learners and staff fully involved and committed to carbon reduction, through a Switch Off and Recycling campaign using student champions to change behaviour.
The aims of this project were to: encourage learners, staff and stakeholders to innovate and implement sustainable development principles as part of ‘bottom up’ development; reduce the College’s energy usage via energy saving technology and behaviour changes; use energy monitoring to support the outcomes of teaching and learning; engage learners and the local community in sustainable development.
This case study describes the implementation of a fully online and automated campus (iHighbury) to enable online enrolments, e-payments, diagnostic testing, learner agreements and online course delivery, ultimately leading to leaner processes and new delivery models, improving efficiency and increasing effectiveness with a return on investment of £70,000.
This project sought to maximise the capabilities and possibilities presented by Sharepoint, updating and streamlining document management across the whole college. The project encompassed implementation of metadata to formal college documents, training of staff across college and development of online forms.
This case study shows how Shipley College sought to address the situation in previous years where the Self-Assessent Review (SAR) has always resulted in many copies in many places and no consistency to version control. Through this project Shipley College used Google Apps (cloud technology) to streamline the SAR process.
This resource comprises the outputs from one of a series of projects to test a range of approaches to improving and extending training and related business services for employers. The college realised that their systems, being geared for individual learners, needed updating. Their project also set out to improve the quality of their business service to employers through the development of a web-based portal.
This resource relates to one of a series of collaborative development projects on the themes of Getting people into work and Apprenticeships. Each project was coordinated by a lead provider, who recruited partner providers to work together to achieve the project objectives. The Bournville College partnership project involved four Colleges, two work based learning providers and, for phase one, an adult education provider. The partnership improved the administrative infrastructure for employability programmes.
The project focussed on the use of central performance data to drive up organisational curriculum efficiency, increase funding optimisation and improve staff utilisation, presenting data in a user friendly, easy to under-stand model.
