Benefits Realisation

The TAG benefits realisation project is about to get started and will be building a resource to support other institutions to develop student led Alternative Guides. The project will run until May 2010, and be led by Lucy Warman from UCLAN.

The resource called “GetTAGged” that will support institutions to embed the resources and processes of the development of TAG and methods of addressing retention into their institution.  It will include case studies of other institutions already producing similar guides.  A national workshop will be held to promote the resource and explore other opportunities for institutional participation.

A great strength of the TAG approach (See guide at http://www.taguclan.org.uk/) in supporting learner retention and motivation is that not only is an institutional guide aimed at students, but students produce most of the content as part of their existing courses.

Institutions will be invited to pilot the idea of producing an Alternative Guide of their own, supported by GetTAGged and the TAG project team members.  If you are interested please contact Lucy or me (Paul Bailey) and we can explore how we can facilitate your participation further.

We are interested in collating resources and ideas how technology is being used to support student retention and motivate learning, as well as student led approaches to creating resources and tools, that could become part of larger resource around this topic. See TAG Assembly on Retention 9 Dec 2009 http://www.uclan.ac.uk/health/research/tag/retention_show_tell.php

EdShare workshop:

Traditional Educational Repositories vs. Web 2.0 Resource Sharing

University of Southampton, 4 November 2009

Traditional repositories vs. Web 2.0 Resource Sharing
The University of Southampton’s JISC-funded EdSpace Project organised a workshop on Wednesday 4 November, 2009, entitled “Traditional repositories vs. Web 2.0 Resource Sharing”.  The event was both stimulating and informative and will help us to design a second Assembly which we will be organising for early 2010.  Professor Hugh Davis welcomed us all to the workshop, which started at 10:30.

Moving Traditional Learning and Teaching Repositories to Web 2.0
First on the agenda was Dave Millard’s presentation “Moving Traditional Learning and Teaching Repositories to Web 2.0″ Dave gave us some useful insights into the issues that we have explored in the EdSpace and Faroes Projects, while building EdShare and the LanguageBox here at Southampton.  His talk addressed the questions: What have we learned about the features of a share? (at Southampton, we have dispensed with the word “repository” and use “share” instead)  and what do we need to do to take things forward? Read the rest of this entry »

The final invitation for ideas for benefits realisation funding has been issued today. Full details are available from http://br.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/phase-1c/.

The inivitation has rolling monthly deadlines, up to June 2010. The funding must be allocated by the end of June and if possble much earlier so get you ideas in before the money runs out (which it will).

We are particularlly interested in ideas that will link into the Building Capacity programme,  what we previously called “project fed” or Phase 2 BR. (see http://br.inin.jisc-ssbr.net/2009/09/18/project-fed-activities/) that can support other institutions to address strategic issues and requirements supported by the outcomes of your projects. We would expect the benefits to be mutual, with our institution gaining new knowledge as a result of working with other institutions. This was always the aim of the institiutional innovation programme, so share the expertise gained from the projects with the wider sector. Now is the time to try and realise the benefits from what you are learning and acheiving.