Transcript The University of Leeds - ALT

JISC's support for learning and teaching in a changing
educational environment
Malcolm Read
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Contents
• JISC Review
• Relevant JISC activities
• The open academic practice
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In 1906…
 The global economy faced a second consecutive downturn based on
market speculation and short selling.
 London was the scene of riots, linked to the Brown Dog affair.
 The first cohort of students began to graduate from the University of Leeds
 Foundation of the worlds first distance learning college, the University of
Wisconsin.
 Education (Provision of Meals) Act 1906
 Open Spaces Act 1906
 Historian AJP Taylor was born (in Lancashire)
“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a
University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the
nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters,
we should still be living in caves.”
AJP Taylor, “The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine and Cobbett” (1957), p14
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The University of Leeds
“For the sons of local families, it was one of the first colleges for
students of all faiths and backgrounds. The College supported the
values of the recently established University College, London and
Owens College in Manchester. These had been set up to challenge the
exclusivity of Oxford and Cambridge universities, which were
predominantly for the Anglican aristocracy and gentry.”
The University of Leeds Act, 1904
Open Government License
Crown Copyright
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Review of JISC
Chaired by Sir Alan Wilson, reported in January 2011.
Recommends JISC becomes a separate legal entity with simplified and
rationalised structure to meet new HE environment.
Three consultancies underway:
 Analysis of governance models, HECG & CHEMS. Jan 2012
 Review of JISC-funded services, Curtis & Cartwright. Dec 2011
 Review of Janet, Capita Consulting. Dec 2011
Aim to establish new organisation 3Q12 but probably not fully functional until
late 2013..
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A new JISC?
 As the HE and FE sectors are changing, JISC has to change too. We
need to stay relevant to the needs of institutions undergoing their most
profound change since the dawn of mass HE.
 We will develop:
– a new, more agile, model for JISC
– services and advice that can meet the new needs of institutions
– and major programmes of work, starting in Autumn 2011
Digital LiteracyeContent
Assessment
OER Course Data
Research
Data
Digging in to data
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Course Data Programme
Course Data: Making the most of Course Information
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/fundingopportunities/funding_calls/2011/07/coursedata.aspx
Stage 1: Review and Plan £10,000
7thSept- Nov11
Supporting the production of an implementation plan outlining changes
required to improve course data flows within the institution and produce
feeds for external agencies.
Stage 2: Implementation £40-80,000
Jan 12- Mar 13
Programme designed to get significant number of engaged institutions to
demonstrate effectively the huge potential of organising and presenting
course information in a standardised way.
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Transformations programme
The JISC Transformations Programme is a new programme which will help
institutions to use JISC outputs and services to:
a. enhance their student experience;
b. improve the efficiency of their business;
c. improve engagement with business and community partners
The first call in this area closes on 15 September – details on the JISC
website under Funding Opportunities.
Successful institutions will be given a small amount of funding to:
 Use JISC (or non-JISC) resources to improve strategic planning or
processes in these areas
 Provide feedback on how useable they are and lessons learned
 Advise on where improvements can be made
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Resource Discovery Programme
The
problem
A
solution?
Follow our
progress
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HE libraries, museums and archives hold rich collections
for researchers and teachers. Discovering what is held
throughout the UK can be a frustrating experience
JISC and partners have established the Discovery
programme to address this problem by taking an open
approach to metadata and by using this metadata to build
tools that make it easier to discover and use the resources
spread around the UK
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You can follow
progress at:
http://discovery.ac.uk
#ukdiscovery
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eContent programme
- Since 2004: nearly £30m and almost 80
projects
- Investment in high quality digital content for
research, teaching and learning through:
- digitisation; enriching existing collections;
clustering content; user generated
content/community engagement; developing skills
and strategies
- New eContent programme, £5.4m Nov 2011:
a) Digitisation for Open Educational Resources
b) Large scale digitisation
c) Clustering content
-See JISC funded content and download the
JISC content widget at www.jisc-content.ac.uk
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UKOER phase 3 (Academy/JISC programme)
PG Cert
Change Academy
Open materials for accredited
courses
Rapid
Innovation
Call
Institutional
Change Academy
OER Themes
Research Studies:
Online learning,
open practice,
technical issues
Hack
Challenge
Wider Engagement: international, student, subject areas.
Programme support, evaluation & synthesis, comms, guidance
Programme management
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JISC’s open practice
JISC has always been committed to the open availability of the work we
have commissioned and carried out:
 we have always required that our funded projects share their findings and
resources with *at least* the UK HE sector, free of charge (this is now
expanding to a general expectation of openness).
 we have almost never charged for our materials, briefings, events (and
even when we were required to, we charged only a nominal amount and
offered free alternatives)
 we have always endeavoured to participate and nurture emerging
communities, rather than act as gatekeepers.
 we have worked openly with partners worldwide.
 even where we work with fee-charging organisations (eg publishers) we
have negotiated for the widest possible availability and use of materials.
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JISC are funding work to…
 look in detail at academic (and institutional) processes and practice
 support and develop emerging business models
 make information public - content, data, processes, research... Open
 derive value from public information
Supporting Openness (OER, OA/open data, open source development , or
"open academic practice")
Openness addresses all of these threads and is a component of all of our
recent funded work. JISC is committed to openness - it is at the core of what
we do and who we are (though we are clear it is not the answer to every
problem, it is the answer to many problems).
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Mark Twain in 1906
“It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others--and less
trouble”
Mark Twain, 1906
New York Times Archive, 1906
Fair Use claimed.
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105 years later…
 Due to a limited $50,000 microfilm
release of the text in 2002, Mark
Twain’s biography is now in copyright
until 2047, 137 years after his death.
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Portrait of Samuel Clements (Mark Twain)
Sourced from SCA partners the Welcome Trust
CC-BY-NC
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Hargreaves Review of Copyright
 Review recommendations to modernise UK IP laws published in May. HMG accepts them in full.UK
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IPO to launch consultation on implementation from mid-Oct onwards.
Recommendations include:
Digital Copyright Exchange; a digital market place where licences in copyright content can be
readily bought and sold.
Copyright exceptions covering limited private copying (format shifting).
Copyright exceptions to allow parody.
Copyright exceptions for library archiving (digital preservation).
Copyright exceptions for search and analysis techniques known as 'text and data mining'.
Establishing licensing and clearance procedures for orphan works (material with unknown copyright
owners).
Collecting Societies should be required by law to adopt codes of practice, approved by the IPO and
the UK competition authorities.
Evidence should drive future IP policy and not ‘lobbynomics’.
Strengthened the Intellectual Property Office's role.
JISC’s future plans include:
Developing the evidence base on data and text mining and orphan works in the coming months.
Producing advice and guidance on the potential implications of the recommendations for colleges
and universities.
Contributing towards HMG policy formation through active and empirical evidence based research.
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To conclude
 Whatever the funding model, whatever the governance model, we are
public institutions, housing public thinkers and dedicated to the education
of society for the needs of society.
 Academics always have been, and always will be, public intellectuals.
We're emerging from a 50 year blip in if you take a long view over the past
1000 years.
 Academics have always taught in public, researched in public, and
engaged with each other and with wider issues in public spaces
 The connected, open world is not an aberration, it's a return to our roots.
 And JISC wants to be a part of this.
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And finally…
“In my opinion, most of the great men of the
past were only there for the beer”
AJP Taylor. Quoted in Peter Vansittart, Voices 1870-1914, introduction (1984).
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