Evaluating JISC Transformations Projects
The Transformations programme is intended to support institutions in achieving strategic change, making use of existing JISC and other resources and drawing upon peer and professional support and practice groups.
The logic model for the evaluation is therefore assessing how effectively this is achieved at all levels. The evaluation assesses the measurable change within institutions, focusing on how the JISC funding has supported/ enabled this change, through use of JISC resources, critical friend expertise and peer support.
Key Principles
Self-evaluation – embedding the evaluation discipline and practice at project level, synthesis level, across critical friends and within the peer networks.
Measurement of change – establishing the applicable baseline or maturity level, determining the indicators/metrics (means of measurement, this should also include ROI – Return On Investment), defining key evaluation tasks e.g. data gathering process
Determining attribution – ensuring (at all levels) that the impact of the JISC intervention can be extracted from the wider project evaluation, and hence provide attributable indicators and evidence.
Projects should now be:
- Establishing baseline /maturity level
- Defining applicable metrics/indicators (evidence)
- Thinking about identifying areas attributable to JISC intervention
- Gathering and logging applicable indicators (evidence)
Second round of JISC Transformations Call
The second round of the JISC Transformations Call is now live.
The objective of the Transformations Programme is to help institutions move towards organisational change through the application of existing JISC and other resources in order to:
- Enhance their student experience
- Improve the efficiency of their business and become agile in a climate of change
- Enhance their organisational capability for business and community engagement
- Improve their environmental performance
£1 million is available for this Programme in the 2011/12 Academic Year to fund projects at £15,000 each. This is the second call this AY which provides two further opportunities to submit bids for 12-15 month projects as detailed below:
- 12 noon UK time on 22 February 2012 – to start 30 April 2012
- 12 noon UK time on 16 April 2012 – to start 11 June 2012
Eligibility
Proposals may be submitted by HE institutions funded via HEFCE, SFC, HEFCW and DEL Northern Ireland. FE institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not eligible to bid for this call as JISC intends to provide an opportunity for FE colleges across the UK to bid for similar activity in the early part of 2012.
With regard to bids from Scottish HE institutions, SFC has applied a significant budget cut to JISC in 2011-12 AY. Following consultation with Scottish institutions, SFC has requested that the impact of this budget cut falls on the number of innovation projects JISC is able to fund at Scottish institutions, rather than to cut or increase charges for national services, such as JANET, JISC Collections and JISC Advance. Whilst Scottish HE institutions therefore remain eligible to bid for project funding in response to this call, depending on the quality of the submissions, JISC may need to limit the number of projects awarded to Scottish HE institutions.
Visualing the Transformation Strands
Projects have completed their information forms and one of the pieces of data we collected was how the projects would tag itself. This will be used elsewhere in the programme but for now we’ve created three word clouds below as a way of quickly visualizing the information.
Enhancing the Student Experience Strand
Improved Efficiency Strand
Enhanced organisational capability for BCE Strand
Online Start-Up Recording
The Start-up meeting went ahead on schedule, thank you to all the participants for their patience with what for some of us is a relatively new medium in this context.
The recording is now available, and as discussed during the session we are correcting some of the errors on the slides and will make them also available on the wiki. A separate message will be sent out once the wiki is ready.
Transformations Programme Online Start-up Meeting
The Transformations Programme Start-up is an online meeting. It will start at 10:30 on Tuesday 22nd November and finish by 13:00. If your project has been funded it is important that you attend this meeting where we will be sharing important information about the programme objectives, how you will be supported and reporting processes.
To make sure that the PC you are using is compatible with the online conferencing system please visit the support site
If you have any questions please post them in the comments field and we will respond asap.
Engaging Senior Management in projects and project proposals
There have been several enquires asking what the best way to get buy in to a small scale project is. The Building Capacity had some success with this area and a new resource was published last week at ALT-C. The resource will be updated with new materials as they become available, until then it may be a useful starting point for Transformations Projects
Following on from the online briefing
The online session briefing session was held this morning starting at 11:00, the link to the recording is now on line. If you have any extra questions they can be posted in the comments on this post and we’ll post replies as soon as possible.
Another resource that would be useful to engage with is the Programme Forum this is a place to discuss and describe any institutional issues that you are considering addressing under the call, please use this forum as it will help us to gather information about issues that institutions are facing and inform our practice both within the call and our wider programme of work.
Announcing the Online Briefing for the JISC Transformations Call
The briefing for the JISC Transformations Call will take place between 11:00 and 13:00 on 17th August 2011. It will take place using Elluminate.
Please make sure you put the date in your diary, but if you do miss the briefing be assured that we will endeavour to record and report on any issues and questions that are raised.
- Before joining the online briefing you should check the computer on which you intend to join the conference , this can be done at the blackboard collaborate support site
- The JISC Good Practice Guide for participants joining the Elluminate call can be found here: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/elluminateguidance , and some more detailed preparation slides can be found here: http://bit.ly/piKUAC
If you have any questions please post them using the comments field below.
JISC Transformations Programme Call for Bids
JISC Transformation Call for Bids
The objective of the Transformations Programme is to help institutions move towards organisational change through the application of existing JISC and other resources in order to:
a. Enhance their student experience
b. Improve the efficiency of their business and become agile in a climate of change
c. Enhance their organisational capability for business and community engagement
£1 million is available for this Programme in the 2011/12 Academic Year and this is the first of two rounds of calls. The second is due to be published in early 2012 depending upon the level of funds remaining. £15,000 per project is available to bidding institutions that are already committed to business change.
The closing date for bids is 12 noon UK time on 15 September 2011. 12-18 month projects are expected to start by 7 November 2011 and complete no later than 31 July 2013. Bidders will be required to complete a short structure bid form.
An online briefing event will be held to provide further information about the background to the call and its objectives. It will be held during week commencing 15 August 2011. Further information, including the date of the event and how to join, will be announced on this blog in the near future. If you have any questions about the call then they can be posted in the comments on the blog or contact the named staf on the call.
Introducing the JISC Transformation Programme
Next week a call to participate in the JISC Transformations Programme will be issued’ at the top of the page.
The programme is aimed at supporting institutions to effect organisational change through the application of existing JISC and other resources. And is aimed at staff where they are contributing to the delivery of business change underpinned by ICT in one of the following areas:
- enhanced student experience;
- improved efficiency and/or cost savings;
- enhanced organisational capability for business and community engagement.
The programme will also be providing an extensive support package using action learning and providing development opportunities for staff involved.
Information will be provided on this blog as it becomes available.