JISC - The Joint Information Systems Committee

This is a great webiste with a wealth of stuff relating information and communication technology. It is worth a look (beleive me) in this ever changing techno world of ours.

Its Brief: JISC works within the area of further and higher education by providing strategic guidance, advice and opportunities to use information and communication technology to support teaching, learning, research and administration. It is also a national academic mailing service, facilitating discussion, collaboration and communication within the UK academic community.

Check out there mind blowing resources collection.

Innovative Practice with e-Learning

This report from the Joint Innovations System Committee (UK) is a good practice guide to embedding mobile and wireless technologies into everyday practice which is aimed at practitioners and managers in further and higher education and adult and community learning. This publication builds on the case study approach adopted in ‘Effective Practice with e-Learning’ to explore ways in which mobile and wireless technologies have become established in post-16 and higher education institutions.

The report also identifies challenges and benefits relating to the use of six commonly found mobile devices and reflects the findings of reports commissioned through the e-Learning and Innovation strand. Ten new case studies are also included to illustrate the use and the impact of these new technologies from three perspectives: those of the learner, the practitioner and the institution.

The publication contains a supplementary CD-ROM which contains extended versions of all ten case studies, video clips for five of the case studies, an e-learning audit tool, and planning tools for use of mobile and wireless technologies. These have been designed as separate downloadable tools for use by institutional managers, e-learning managers or practitioners.

(Note: Thanks to Judith Clarke for some of this info ok)