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Mining Biodiversity
No full textThe overarching goal of this project was to transform the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a digital library of over 40 million pages of taxonomic literature, into a next generation social digital resource to facilitate the collaborative study and discussion of legacy biodiversity documents by a worldwide community. In this project, methods for text mining, visualisation and social media analysis were developed to effectively serve BHL users with semantically enriched content
EMA podcast transcript: getting started with small-scale EMA
No full textThe text transcript for a Jisc podcast on getting started with the electronic management of assessment (EMA). One of a series of podcasts on EMA
Loughborough College: Badges mean progress in English GCSE
No full textGCSE English resit students at Loughborough College learn difficult vocabulary by testing themselves on their mobile devices with the language learning app, Memrise. Competing with each other to earn badges for each completed test motivates students to tackle less appealing aspects of the curriculum. This innovative assessment-for-learning approach helps staff track individual learners’ progress so they can provide more support to those who need it
Building digital capability: Employability lens on the Six Elements of Digital Capability
No full textThis is a version of the Jisc ‘Six Elements of Digital Capabilities’ model, developed to support student-facing sta working in Careers and Employability roles and curriculum sta working to embed employability issues into the curriculum.
It draws on the work of the Jisc Developing Student Employability project e.g. on the model of the ‘employable student’ produced by Peter Chatterton for that project
opeNWorks Open Access Good Practice pathfinder project final report
No full textThe final project report of the opeNWorks pathfinder project, part of Jisc's open access good practice initiative which ended in July 2016. The project involved the University of Manchester (lead), Edge Hill University, Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Liverpool and the University of Salford.
The project aimed to develop a North West community of practice for Open Access Publishing support, building on Manchester’s successful service implementation during the first year of the UK Research Council’s (RCUK) compliance requirements and block grant funding. Project objectives included developing and adapting guidelines to meet the varying needs of local universities, to reduce the burden of compliance whilst maintaining research excellence. The proximity of the institutions involved was expected to foster community building, and although the project had a regional focus the outputs created were made openly available for reuse by the wider Open Access support community.
The project realigned its objectives in 2015 to address two new areas which had emerged from workshops organised by Jisc, whilst continuing to support development of a regional community of Open Access support practice. The new areas were concerned with benchmarking Open Access support services and the ‘approaches to deposit’ that institutions had in place to support the implementation of the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s (HEFCE) new Open Access policy, which affects submissions to the next Research Excellence Framework (REF). The intention was to produce a report that would include examples of Open Access support services, to help institutions considering increasing their resource, and provide a clearer understanding of the costs and benefits of the different deposit workflow models in place to support institutional compliance with HEFCE’s Open Access policy
HHuLOA Open Access Good Practice pathfinder project final report
No full textThe Universities of Hull, Huddersfield, and Lincoln are three medium-sized UK Higher Education institutions. Each university has a growing research portfolio and, like other universities, each has been active in supporting open access (OA) for many years. All are institutions seeking to develop their research capability and reputation further. Recognising this commonality between the three universities, a successful joint bid was made to the Jisc Open Access Good Practice Pathfinder programme as the HHuLOA (Hull, Huddersfield, Lincoln Open Access) project. The project’s aim was to work collaboratively to identify how OA support mechanisms can be used to assist with the development of research; we all also wished to develop our open access processes, comply with external policy drivers, and help to communicate and embed open access locally. Recognising the desire not to duplicate activity and also benefit from each other’s input, we sought to work together to achieve more than the sum of the institutions’ individual developments.
The HHuLOA project addressed a number of themes, each a component of the broader aim:
• Establishing a baseline of what institutions are doing to support open access, capturing information from a group of institutions and sharing this openly
• Investigating a means of facilitating better navigation of funder open access policies so their terms can be met
• Developing open access lifecycles from different stakeholder perspectives
• Exploring how open access can be managed across institutional stakeholders, including research support offices
• Understanding how open access might be embedded within e-resource management processes to aid local streamlining of workflows
To achieve this, the project was broken up into a number of work packages. Each institution took the lead on two to three of these, taking on the bulk of the work but always with the ongoing input and feedback from the partners to crosscheck the direction of the work and co-review progress. None of the partners would have pursued the individual work packages outside the project without help from the others to encourage and support the effort undertaken. Throughout the project, the HHuLOA team also felt that many pairs of eyes were crucial to the project’s success. Therefore, a number of the work packages were crowd sourced. The team was influenced by other projects and used open access and project listservs, the project blog, a number of conferences and seminars, and two workshops held in June 2015 and May 2016 to harness this collective intelligence