Projects
Netskills undertakes a wide variety of projects, ranging from research studies to development of resources and specialist workshop programmes.
Projects have been funded by organisations and funding bodies including the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education (NIACE), the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) and many others.
Current Projects
- BCE: Awareness and education for the wider JISC community
- We are putting together a programme of core awareness and education events and activities to support the JISC Business and Community Engagement (BCE) programme. This is one of four projects currently being undertaken across the JISC Advisory Services during 2008-2011.
- Oct-2008 — Jul-2010
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- Supporting Training, CPD and Staff Exchange for BCE Practitioners
- We will be offering a complementary, integrated and coherent training support and enhancement package that meets the needs of BCE practitioners and enhances capability within institutions to better promote and support BCE activities.
- Jul-2008 — Jun-2010
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- Trialling of online collaborative tools for BCE
- Netskills and JISC infoNet are leading a collaborative project with the other JISC Advisory Services to run trials of online collaborative tools for BCE.
- Aug-2008 — Jun-2010
- BSc/MSc Teaching: School of Computing Science, Newcastle University
- We have developed and deliver taught modules on both BSC and MSc degree programmes in Computing Science at Newcastle University.
- Oct-2008 — Jun-2010
- JISC Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies (IRET)
- Netskills delivered a supporting studies and synthesis project for the JISC Institutional Responses to Emergent Technologies programme. Outputs included a landscape report, case studies and guidance materials for HEI managers.
- Aug-2008 — Feb-2010
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- Improving your Online Presence
- We developed and ran a series of events providing practical guidance in how to improve the online presence of public sector and educational organisations through search engine optimisation and social media. The project was comissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance.
- May-2009 — Aug-2009
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- JISC Users & Innovation Programme: Web2practice
- We are investigating innovative practice with emergent web technologies by early adopters. A practical printed guide will be developed for any member of staff looking to adopt emerging technologies into their working practices.
- Aug-2008 — Aug-2009
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- JISC e-Learning programme: Effective Practice with e-Portfolios
- As part of the JISC e-learning programme Netskills is providing a set of free-to-attend workshops entitled: How Can e-Portfolios Support 21st Century Learning? The aim of the workshops is to give a snapshot of learning enhanced by e-portfolios in higher, further and continuing education.
- Sep-2008 — Aug-2009
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- Federated Access Management: Core Skills Training
- We are developing and delivering two workshop programmes across the UK to help the community explore technical skills required to deploy Federated Access Management at their institutions. Following the success of the initial programme for Identity Providers (IdPs), the project is now providing support for organisations and institutions who wish to act as Service Providers (SPs).
- Apr-2007 — Jul-2009
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- JISC Materials Refresh for BCE
- The Netskills Training Materials are being re-purposed specifically for practitioners in Business and Community Engagement (BCE).
- Aug-2008 — Jul-2009
- Scenario Planning for JISC's JOS Committee
- This JISC-funded project applied the full scenario planning process to consider the roles, responsibilities and organisational structures required to support future working practices in Higher Education.
- Aug-2008 — May-2009
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- i-Skills Self-Evaluation Tool
- We are developing an online self-evaluation tool for use in assessing and developing workplace information skills.
- Jan-2008 — Mar-2009
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A list of previous projects is also available.
