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From innovation to implementation to sector change: the view from HEFCE JISC Innovation Forum Keele University, 15 July 2008 Dr John Selby – Director (Education and Participation)

Overview JISC and its funders/partners The role of HEFCE Innovation as a socio-technical system JISC innovations emerging JISC innovations established JISC innovations evolving JISC innovations enabling Your role and the funders’ role

JISC and its funders/partners JISC is a committee (many committees) JISC is UK wide JISC is funded by HE and FE and indirectly others JISC funding ultimately comes from government JISC is both top-down and bottom-up JISC innovates in ICT on behalf of its funders and the sectors it represents JISC operates in changing (national) political contexts

The role of HEFCE Principal funder of core budget HEFCE appoints JISC chair and two board members HEFCE works with other funders – Steering committee of assessors – Assessors attend JISC Board Secretariat are HEFCE staff HEFCE capital programme

Innovation as a socio-technical system The nature of socio-technical systems The innovation process The implementation process From innovation to implementation to sector change

JISC innovation emerging eXchanging Course Related Information (XCRI) Opening up offerings of learning providers Allows valued added services and new information channels to be offered. Growing community of adopters including – UCAS, MMU, Staffordshire, Thames Valley, Herefordshire, Oxford, OU, Bolton, Manchester, Salford and London Met.

JISC innovation established ePrints - Open Source Repository Software Enabled the development of Institutional repositories and enable open access to research, data and other materials. 264 known achieves world wide using ePrints

JISC innovation evolving From Athens (est 1997) to Federated Access Management (est 2006) Journey from centralised to federated – JISC Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting (AAA) programme ( ) – Core Middleware Programmes ( ) – Access Management Transition Programme ( ) – Access Management Federation (est 2006) Better of control access and identity for users Ability to integrate with existing systems Access to a wider range of resources and services

JISC innovation enabling Distributed e-Learning Programme ( ) ‘Life Long Learning’ Outcomes have enabled – Regional collaboration – Effective use of e-portfolio me_edistributed

Your role and the funders’ role Your role – Think about the users – Speak beyond the community – Remember the changing political context The funders’ role – Be clear about strategy – Engage with sector-wide bodies – Engage with government Together we can support change in HE and FE