1. Floating Topic
  2. Why: the problem to be addressed
    1. "Political": Institutional strategy and policy; Top Down
      1. economy
        1. Economic recovery and public funding
          1. employability, employer group partnerships, regional development associations
      2. quality & governance
        1. Quality, standards and reputation
          1. including environment, league tables, student satisfaction, professionalised workforce
      3. global
        1. International responsiveness
          1. work abroad, open borders, GATS, Kyoto, markets, blocs, emergency management, resilience
      4. open
        1. Social mobility, equality, democracy
          1. access, retention, progression, certification
    2. "Programmatic: JISC Intended outcomes; Bridging
      1. efficiency
        1. Efficiency, effectiveness and quality
          1. useable and used; it works, it impacts on resource use and is felt to be valuable
      2. solutions
        1. Sustainable technological solutions
          1. aligned with physical/natural world, holistic, large systems thinking; guidelines, how-tos, technical specifications, QOS, WAN, rss
      3. networks
        1. Enhanced community networks
          1. pre-formal and formal (what Duton, 2007 calls “pro-social” networks) regular meetings of groups of people at conferences, assemblies, seminars, community and professional associations, working groups, committees; business groups, professional institutes; processes, institutional change processes; developing community in particular ways to facilitate change management. Expectation management.
      4. leadership
        1. Strategic leadership
          1. best practice exemplars, models, guides, sustained innovation
      5. development
        1. Access to practical advice, technical services, demonstrators and detailed guidance
          1. information, workshops, case studies, consultancy, skills provision
    3. "Pragmatic": Institutional ICT concerns - JOS Bottom up
      1. lta
        1. Curriculum Design
        2. Curriculum Delivery
        3. Assessment
      2. r&d
        1. Research and development
          1. distributed collaboration, large data sets, visualisation, eresearch
      3. bce
        1. Business and community engagement
          1. local and regional agendas given equal weight to national and international agendas
      4. LR
        1. Learning resources
          1. Repositories, databases, electronic libraries, IP, pre/post-print access, citation, reference management, social bookmarking, personal learning resources
      5. eadmin
        1. Eadministration
          1. Records, work-flows, architectures, registration, examination, certification, transcripts, lifelong learning records
      6. icts
        1. Institutional ICT services
          1. data storage, access, use, representation, link to the physical network, energy requirement, cooling, space, transmission, signalling, operating systems, protocols
      7. estates
        1. Estates
          1. buildings, which are…
      8. mlapc
        1. Mobile, location-aware, ambient, pervasive computing
          1. … spaces pervaded by computing
      9. green
        1. Green ICT
          1. Environmental footprint mitigation
  3. What: is actually being changed
    1. Innovation themes
      1. portals
        1. Portals and personal portals: programmes, eportfolios and PLEs, for CPD and LLL
          1. New ways in to reconfigurable clusters, networks, disciplines or communities of participation involving multiple individual and institutional relationships: people, universities, colleges, schools, employers, regulatory bodies
      2. frameworks
        1. Flexible frameworks for accreditation
          1. Accreditation frameworks and portals need to be aligned; light-touch, loosely coupled at present; international and regional mobility question; human capital v. social capital constructs, APL, APEL, APCL, etc; EuroPass, EurEng, EuroPro; awarding bodies, exam boards
          2. APL
          3. APEL
          4. APCL
      3. skills
        1. evolving multimedia, new learning skills, problem solving, innovation management
          1. Literacy debate may go beyond skills into knowledge and semantics but needs to be grounded in skills: how to do things like learn and teach. Note particularly the rise of participatory multi-media and its importance to cultural sense making reflected in podcasting, lecture capture and audio-video feedback
        2. Digital literacy
          1. ability to apply general software interface principles to independently explore new software
          2. knowing and observing appropriate conventions on authoring in a variety of media and in a variety of professional and academic contexts
          3. ability to search, aggregate and organise digital information from a variety of sources for personal and/or collective use
          4. ability to represent oneself online in a suitable way within a range of communities, particularly professional/learning communities
          5. selecting and using appropriate technology for recording and representing academic, professional and personal development
          6. praxis
          7. Practice: managing personal and group processes in communities using appropriate technology;
          8. Theory: managing personal and group knowledge/development/learning
          9. Voice: fluency in understanding, interpreting and being in command of “voice” in on-line authoring and publishing
          10. selecting and using appropriate authoring technologies
          11. securely and responsibly manage one’s own and other people’s data and online identities
      4. knowledge
        1. New multimedia, post-text epistemologies
          1. validation, assessment, marking criteria, regulation, membership, discipline underpinned not by text but by multimedia and hyper-media linked representations of knowledge and a connected (digital) commons
      5. physical/digital
        1. Aware physical/digital environments
          1. Reconfigurable spaces for learning, stability/mutability of the physical estate; sustainability, reusability, personalisation of space: education commons, access grid, quality of service, VOIP, distributed collaborative space, cones of silence; learning landscapes
      6. semantics
        1. Semantic web standards
          1. rdf, micro-formats, identity, profiles, ontologies, metadata, dbWiki, tags, key words, controlled vocabularies, rss, opml, doi
        2. Estates standards
          1. drainage
          2. energy
          3. health and safety
          4. etc
      7. participation
        1. Peer-to-peer participatory culture
          1. Access, openness, progression, retention, mentoring, CPD, communities of …, professional standards, graduate attributes, licences to practice, professional indemnity Creative Commons
        2. Free flowing and strategic innovation
    2. Techno-cultural enablers
      1. local activity systems: tools, applications, processes, procedures, languages, etc
        1. tools, applications, proceses, standards, languages, markup, modelling tools, etc, which make the individual context of each project unique
          1. Identity
          2. Shibboleth
          3. Federation
          4. Open ID
          5. Twitter ID
          6. Google ID
          7. Yahoo ID
          8. Amazon ID
          9. LLLR
          10. Eportfolio
          11. Student record systems
          12. Podcasting
          13. Multimedia
          14. feedback
          15. XCRI
          16. TOGAF
          17. TRIZ
          18. APEL
          19. CRM
          20. Cloud computing
          21. Google Apps
          22. Shared services
          23. Eportfolio
          24. PebblePad
          25. OSPI
          26. Sakai
          27. VLE
          28. Vendors
          29. PLE
          30. Library
          31. UML
          32. LAMP, etc
          33. Creative Commons
          34. Campus Maps
          35. Teaching with space in mind
          36. Reverse Imagineering
          37. Laptop loan
          38. LEAP2
  4. Support services
    1. Synthesis
      1. outcomes, positions, lessons, collation of appropriate materials, good practice evidence, materials for dissemination and benefits realisation, informing future planning discussions, support programme-level evaluation activities.
      2. Project visits
    2. Communication
    3. Editorial
    4. Web Tech
    5. Learning Facilitation
    6. Assemblies
      1. AP(E)L
      2. mentoring
      3. Student engagement
      4. TRIZ
      5. Uptake
      6. Enhancing feedback
      7. Process visualisation
  5. How
    1. Change Management
      1. Stakeholders
      2. Change agents
      3. Change processes
  6. Outputs
    1. Items
      1. Item
      2. Item
      3. etc
    2. Artefacts
      1. a digitized entity which can be used, reused or referenced