Introducing the Building Capacity Programme
One of the key success criteria of any project is the degree to which people use it and its outputs. The new Building Capacity programme is focusing on recent and existing JISC projects and services and helping HEIs to implement the outputs and outcomes of relevant projects in their institution in response to their own strategic drivers
How will it work?
The programme is aimed at senior managers (Pro Vice Chancellor level) who will sponsor an institutional change programme by applying a combination of appropriate JISC outputs, outcomes and services (products) to the issue. The programme will provide a small amount of funding to seed the change process and enable local contextualisation of JISC products.
For example, if an institution wishes to address aspects of social mobility it may decide to use a combination of outputs from Innovation Projects, such as the TAG project at UCLAN (methods for providing online pastoral support), the CoGenT project, at the University of Gloucestershire for developing workforce development curricula, the Mining Course Management Systems at TVU for accessing student retention data and the JISC TechDis service for accessing advice on widening access. The funding can be used to deploy and contextualise the projects and outputs in the institution or it may also be used to bring in projects to act as consultants, where the required input is over and above the stated project remit.
What sort of issues will the programme look at addressing?
In providing this funding and mapping JISC products to issues we have identified the following high level issues as indicative of the areas we are interested in:
- Economic recovery and public funding
- Quality standards and reputation
- Research funding and governance
- International competitiveness
- Social mobility
What will the programme deliver?
The major output for the programme will be toolkits that will enable other institutions to enact similar change processes; these will be underpinned with roadmaps and case studies describing the process of how JISC projects were deployed away from the project host institution and how they are being used to address strategic issues.
For more information, get in touch with Lawrie Phipps
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[…] some discussion over the summer on how this might work Lawrie Phipps has now written a blog message http://lawrie.jiscinvolve.org/2009/09/17/introducing-the-building-capacity-programme/ which describes an approach which will be used as a part of the next phase of realising benefits. […]
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