Tag Archives: Academic Networking

the JISC Institutional Innovation Exchange at Birmingham

On Thursday 28th and Friday 29th of January, Laura and Anne-Sophie went off to Birmingham for the JISC Institutional Innovation Exchange meeting.One of the activities was the Trade Fair… With 7 sold products, we didn’t do such a bad job! Thanks for all who bought our products. For those who would still like to have [...]

Product 3 – Find out how to do user testing!

Another outcome of this exciting project is a brief example video which shows you a real user testing session so you get an idea of what user testing is like.We also run a workshop on Friday 5th of March 2010 which gives you concrete tips on how to get started on doing a user testing [...]

Product 1 – Find out how to use user-centric design!

Desperate to understand what your faculty and students REALLY want (because it’s never what they ask for)?This handbook gives you the methodology description of the JISC Academic Networking project.A run-through, with real examples, pictures and lots of ‘how-do-I-start-on-this’ should enable you to get started on a project, using this methodology yourself.> Download the Handbook> Download [...]

Product 2 – Find out how to involve stakeholders efficiently!

Looking to try something new with your next project, or you simply want to find out how to involve your stakeholders efficiently? Then this product is something for you!It can sometimes be really hard to get your stakeholders involved. This tick-box-shaped document isn’t a walkthrough roadmap, but a list of initiatives you can choose from, [...]

Product 4 – Academic Networking in your Virtual Learning Environment!

One of the outcomes of the JISC Academic Networking project is that the results of the project will be integrated in future releases of open source Online Learning Environment Sakai.Keep an eye on SakaiProject.org!> Download the flyer This outcome is one of the products presented at the JISC Innovation Exchange at Birmingham 28th-29th January

Off to the programme meeting…

Next week, Laura and Anne-Sophie will be off to Aston for the Institutional Innovation JISC programme meeting.We’re looking forward to meeting the other projects, and figuring out what to buy in the Trade Fair… watch this space for posts about what we’ll have available in the Fair!

Assembling

We are starting to think in depth about our Assembly, for the JISC Institutional Innovation programme. We’d like to have a topic of “Personas and User Testing” as we think user testing would be of interest to others at this project phase.Tentative dates might be 8th, 14th or 15th December, for an assembly roughly 11am-4pm [...]

As Laura James said, the project was presented at the Sakai Conference in Boston. Preparing a 45 minute presentation is surprisingly harder as it seems. I was glad we had so much time to present it, but even 45 minutes still didn’t seem to be enough to present everything…There’s just too much to say [...]

Documenting, documenting, documenting!

Everyone knows documenting can take a lot of your time. I’ve been busy for some time now and still I have the feeling we’ve not covered everything. Sure, these documents are mainly to make sure we’re not forgetting anything because it’s so easy to forget about something. This means they’re actually still more drafts than [...]

working with Sakai

We last posted when in the throes of our design phase, with iterations of prototyping and user testing – very intense. We managed one round of conceptual design, paper prototype testing with users, a design combination and refinement, wireframe testing with users, and then final refinement.We are now very proud to have a [...]

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