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Framing the Jisc Digital Leadership Programme

17 August 2015 Lawrie Phipps Leave a comment Leadership

“Understand your own practice, identify where you want or need to develop, build the capability in you and your team.” This may seem like common sense, but often we don’t take the time to really reflect on what we do and how we do it. This can be especially true when it comes to digital…

How the dinosaur got his nose!

4 April 201425 June 2015 Lawrie Phipps 1 Comment Communication, e-learning, JISC, Learning and Teaching

I hadn't gotten excited about 3D printing. It’s great, love the idea, understand how artists can use it, or engineers can build prototypes etc, but I hadn't got that excited. That changed for me when I met a project in which Jisc is a partner from the British Geological Society at the Jisc Digifest in…

Flipped classroom, or just flippin’ technology? Where are we now with technology, student experience and organisational change?

25 March 2014 Lawrie Phipps Leave a comment Conferences and Events, JISC

Jisc have been working in collaboration with key partners in the Higher Education sector to support the technology enhanced learning aspirations of a variety of institutions through a HEFCE funded initiative - Changing the Learning Landscape. The model of support is based on conversations with key staff in institutions and followed up with targeted interventions.…

New Jisc, new job titles, new ways of working and an extra role

17 January 2014 Lawrie Phipps Leave a comment JISC

Jisc has been going through changes; new staff, structures and ways of working have all had an impact on the way we feel and behave. It's been really easy to feel negative about some changes. For me personally the sense of losing the team that we have, Organisations and User Technologies, even though we were…

Incremental or Radical Change

5 January 2012 Lawrie Phipps 1 Comment change management, Connectivism, e-learning, JISC, Web 2.0

I’ve been working with some of the new JISC Transformations Projects and looking back at the previous Building Capacity Projects, both of these programmes are based around deploying JISC resources to bring about organisational change. Following a conversation with a someone from Gartner late in 2011 it got me thinking about some of the peripheral…

Six ways to ensure sustainability for technology based interventions

4 June 2010 Lawrie Phipps Leave a comment Communication, ICT, JISC, management, Uncategorized

Over the last two years I’ve been very lucky in working with some excellent projects in three JISC programmes; Users and Innovation, Institutional Innovation and Building Capacity. This community of projects hold a vast core of information and knowledge about the use of technology in institutions and how to get the most of it. In…

Introducing the Building Capacity Programme

17 September 2009 Lawrie Phipps 2 Comments change management, Culture, JISC, Project

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…

Location Independent Working Conference (April 2009)

2 April 2009 Lawrie Phipps Leave a comment Conferences and Events, Culture, Estates, Green ICT, JISC, Project

“...Work is not a place where you go but rather something you do” Morgan R.E. (2004) Teleworking: An assessment of the benefits and challenges, European Business Review David Morris introduced the day with a series of concise slides explaining the concept and also that his project was a 3 month pilot. A series of presentations…

Managing Online Identity

25 April 2008 Lawrie Phipps 4 Comments Conferences and Events, identity, JISC, Privacy, Web 2.0

This is a topic that is gaining a lot of coverage, and is extremely important in an academic setting. I’ll be facilitating a workshop next week at the Next Generation Environments event at Aston University with James Farnhill and trying to elicit some issues from both teaching and research practitioners. We’ll be running a couple…

Eliciting Answers using web 2.0 tools.

5 March 2008 Lawrie Phipps Leave a comment Communication, Connectivism, JISC, Uncategorized, User, Web 2.0

Linked-In is a tool for maintaining and developing contacts – one of the features is the ability to ask questions of your network of contacts and the ‘public visibility’ of these questions. I thought it might be interesting to pose a question around web 2.0 and then see what sort of answers we got back.…