http://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org Institutional Responses to Emergent Techologies Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:25:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Image derived from Paul Bailey's Wordle, generated after our session) Last month we ran a session at the JISC Next Generation Technologies in Practice conference (10/11 March, Burleigh Court, Loughborough University).  We were asked to consider Innovative change, institutional policies and communities. James began the session by outlining our project, the ... http://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org/2009/04/16/innovative-change-institutional-policies-and-communities/ Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), like almost all organisations, are divided into different functional units. And, like almost all organisations, these units each have different images of the organisation, different priorities and different attitudes towards technologies. As a result, they often come into tension with one another leading to a pattern ... http://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/24/the-institution-as-battlefield-allies-enemies-non-aligned/ The JISC has identified a group of technologies, services and practices that they have variously labelled as “emerging” or “emergent” technologies. In JISC documentation the term is defined in terms of the following six elements The web as a platform; Things that think; An architecture of participation; Data consumption and remixing from other sources A ... http://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org/2008/11/24/%e2%80%9cemergent%e2%80%9d-or-%e2%80%9cemerging%e2%80%9d-technologies-what%e2%80%99s-the-difference-and-does-it-matter/ As well as running workshops for Netskills, Will and I also get our hands dirty with some web development for our host institution. This mostly goes unnoticed, but recently a few of our activities have popped up on the institutional radar and been subjected to some scrutiny. The latest was a ... http://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/22/a-blip-on-the-institutional-radar/ By way of introduction to what our 'Synthesis and Supporting Studies' project is about, Will and I thought we 'd share a write up of a session we delivered at the JISC Next Generation Environments Conference. The aim of the session was to hear the experiences of attendees regarding emerging ... http://jisciret.jiscinvolve.org/2008/10/09/institutional-responses-to-emerging-technologies/