http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/rss.aspxJISC Recently Updated Activityweb@jisc.ac.uk16 Jul 2009Thu, 04 Nov 2010 01:24:53 GMT http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/researchcommunities.aspxThe aim of the Research Communities Engagement programme is to build on the findings and outputs from these earlier projects with the aim of developing initiatives to foster greater use of advanced ICT and the e-infrastructure by researchers across all disciplines. new/whatwedo/programmes/researchcommunities.aspx1 Nov 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/swaniltig.aspxThe Learning and SWaNI FE Teaching Innovation Grants programme supports one year projects from further education colleges from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland of up to £50,000 each dealing with any aspect of e-learning./whatwedo/programmes/elearning/swaniltig.aspx22 Oct 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre.aspxThe programme seeks to involve all sectors of the research community and recognises the need to support research activities within and across disciplinary boundaries. new/whatwedo/programmes/vre.aspx4 Nov 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/filmandsound.aspxThe overall mission of the group is to advise the JISC on all issues relating to the creation, discovery, use, delivery and preservation of film and sound resources and to input to relevant strategic and policy areas.updated/whatwedo/programmes/filmandsound.aspx1 Nov 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports.aspxThe following reports and studies were commissioned as part of the JISC Digitisation Programme and are all available in electronic form for download. Further studies will be carried out in the course of the programme and will be made available here. /whatwedo/programmes/digitisation/reports.aspx27 Oct 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscexpo.aspxThis strand is helping academic library's explore the future of their management systems, and providing users with convenient and easy access to the huge range of digital information resources which they make available./whatwedo/programmes/inf11/jiscexpo.aspx26 Oct 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer2.aspxBetween August 2010 and August 2011, JISC and the Academy are supporting projects and activities that support the open release of learning resources and the discovery and use of these resources../whatwedo/programmes/elearning/oer2.aspx25 Oct 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/institutionalinnovation/mcms.aspxThe aim of the project is to support the institution student retention strategy. The project will build a system that will monitor student information sources and generates events, reports, advice to identify potential divergence from and to recommend remedial actions for prescribed educational processes. /whatwedo/programmes/institutionalinnovation/mcms.aspx8 Oct 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/institutionalinnovation/ecciles.aspxThe project aims to find new solutions to the problems of power consumption and heat control in computer classrooms and server rooms using a systematic approach to innovation called TRIZ. Focusing on one University site, the project will investigate, in depth, the contributing factors to the problem of energy usage associated with educational computing. From this analysis we aim to generate a set of viable solutions appropriate to the site. A second strand will investigate how to improve temperature management in computer rooms including classrooms, with the minimum energy increases. The project seeks to engage the whole site community in contributing to energy reduction./whatwedo/programmes/institutionalinnovation/ecciles.aspx8 Oct 2010http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/mrd/rdmp/gravitationalwaves.aspx‘Big science’ data is different: it comes in large volumes, and it is shared and exploited in ways which may differ from other disciplines. The MRD-GW project will explore these differences using Gravitational Wave data as a case-study, and produce recommendations useful variously to JISC, STFC and the GW community./whatwedo/programmes/mrd/rdmp/gravitationalwaves.aspx7 Oct 2010