JISC-iret

About this original series

Supporting the JISC Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies (IRET) programme. The purpose of this programme is to understand the issues surrounding the support for emergent technologies of Web 2.0 software and mobile devices from an institutional and organisational perspective – to help institutions manage their responses to the challenges that can arise, particularly in the context of staff and students’ demand for flexible access to their institutions' functions and services

# Episodes
8 episodes
Rating
TV-UN

Episodes of JISC-iret

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  Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies
  
  Presents a framework for higher education institutions to consider their response to the
  - Release date
    
    Nov 18, 2009
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    12:35
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  Netskills: IRET support
  
  Netskills: JISC-IRET support projectWill Allen, Netskills
  - Release date
    
    Jul 28, 2008
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    00:51
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  Quali-R overview
  
  Quali-R : project overviewCathryn Smith, Ravensbourne College of Design & CommunicationThe Quali-R project will implement a small-scale platform for managing and tracking quality assurance and enhancement actions through standards-based aggregation. A commodity issue tracking or task management system will be adapted to manage action items from external examiner reports, annual course monitoring reports, and course committees. A simple web-service client will facilitate the extraction of actio...
  - Release date
    
    Jul 25, 2008
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    01:28
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  REACh : overview
  
  REACh : project overviewMark Stubbs, Manchester Metropolitan University.The Researching Emerging Admin Channels (REACh) project will inform institutional responses to the challenge presented by emergent personal technologies by publishing action-research on the responses of diverse student groups when administrative communication processes are extended to deliver personalised information via web 2.0 feeds and mobile channels.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 25, 2008
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    01:01
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  Egret : project overview
  
  Egret : project overview Laura James, Cambridge University.The EGRET project takes a fresh view across a range of the universities administrative systems drawing on advanced concepts in user centred design and social networking.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 25, 2008
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    00:36
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  KATAPILA
  
  KATAPILA : project overview Andrew Williams, Kingston College. The KATAPILA project seeks to exploit the opportunities provided by emergent technologies for administration of the learning experience for higher education students within a further education environment. We are seeking to provide integrated access for learners to timetable information relating to their courses of study, assessment schedules and examination programme.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 25, 2008
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    00:29
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  Only Connect
  
  Only Connect : project overviewChris Frost, University of Bolton.A project to pilot the development of a new communications environment to strengthen the bonds between individual learners and the university which will transcend existing modes of communication, engagement, representation and support.
  - Release date
    
    Jul 25, 2008
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    00:40
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  DIVAS : Overview
  
  DIVAS : overviewSue Lee, Staffordshire UniversityThis Project combines the use of a Community of Practice approach employing social software with the use of a repository to enable the outputs from validation events to exploited in a more intelligent and responsive way. By exposing outputs from validations by linking the repository to the social software, practitioners will be able to learn from the experiences of others via a "self-service" approach, which will reduce administrative burdens, a...
  - Release date
    
    Jul 18, 2008
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    00:21