JISC Advisory Services BCE Team

The Business and Community Engagement Team, established in May 2008, aims to champion and advocate the work of the JISC Advisory Services in the collaborative delivery of projects and activities in BCE through the provision of support, knowledge and expertise in innovation-led and education-led activities within the FE/HE sector.

The team also has a responsibility for helping the BCE programme and the Advisory Services achieve their individual and collective missions. In particular for the BCE programme, Advisory Services play a role as change agents in building BCE capability and capacity within JISC by integrating and embedding BCE activity.

The team comprises of Rob Allen (Netskills), Marc Dobson (Netskills) and Andrew Stewart (JISC infoNet).

The Advisory Services BCE Team web page

Current BCE Projects

Netskills are leading two major projects within the JISC BCE Programme:

BCE Awareness and Education for the Wider JISC Community

This project is part of the Embedding and Communicating BCE programme stream, which is focused on promotion of BCE both within JISC and the JISC Community - as well as outwards from JISC.

Project Blog

Supporting Training, CPD and Staff Exchange for BCE Practitioners

This project aims to support staff development within institutions for BCE Activities through a complementary, integrated and coherent training support and enhancement package; the JISC BCE Training Support Package. This should respond to the needs of BCE practitioners and enhance capability within institutions to better promote and support BCE activities.

Project Information

JISC infoNet and Netskills are project partners for the following project within the JISC BCE Programme:

Trialling of Collaborative Online Tools for BCE

This project is trialling online collaborative tools to support BCE activities within a range of institutional contexts. Eight partner institutions are running trial projects within the project, in order to identify good practice, challenges and to share lessons learned.

Project Blog

Completed BCE Projects

Netskills has worked on four JISC-funded projects for staff working in BCE:

Free online training

Covering key themes for BCE including web site development (CSS, RSS, writing for the web...) and CPD online (designing e-learning, podcasting, web tools...).

Go to the resources

Social software infokit

Research of the sector's use of social software and development of an online resource in collaboration with JISC infoNet.

Project details | Infokit

Study on the use of Collaborative Tools in BCE

Netskills conducted a study on the experiences of staff using tools to support collaboration. A survey and interviews led to a set of "user reflections" documented against a compilation of available tools for collaboration.

Final report (PDF)

Engagement activity for Collaborative Tools in BCE

This project involved a programme of activities designed to disseminate and engage staff working in BCE with a wide range of tools for collaboration that fit their needs. These activities included the development of a workshop 'Collaborative Tools for Knowledge Transfer and BCE'.

Workshop description

Further Information

If you have any enquiries regarding Netskills and its services for Business and Community Engagement please email: enquiries@netskills.ac.uk or phone 0191 222 5000.

Find out more about JISC's work with BCE.