This workshop session will explore technological change in an institutional context from the perspective of the IS Manager or Director, and the role of JISC funded projects in this context. It will consider questions such as how we can provide and maintain mission critical services and enable and support innovation? - and in a context of shrinking budgets!
This session aims to address the core topic of this year's conference and explore 'the challenges facing educational institutions in a rapidly changing environment, and the implications for those with responsibility for implementing technology change, namely IT service departments.'
In the context of rapid technological and political change institutions need to be able to
and so on....
In this session we hope to look at some of these issues from the point of view of
This session has no pre-arranged presentations, and will be a workshop to enable delegates to explore and identify some of the issues arising from the above - we will reflect on what we have been doing recently, our plans, challenges, drivers etc, and ways forward, including considering how JISC and JISC can help.
Some recent relevant reading includes the following - please add to these! -
UCISA TLIG, 2008 Survey of Technology Enhanced Learning for higher education in the UK http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/ssg/surveys.aspx
UCISA survey - Top concerns - 2008/9 https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/members/surveys/tc.aspx
Educause - Top ten IT issues, 2008 http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/TopTenITIssues2008/46605
