The document summarizes Jisc's plans and priorities for 2017/18. Key points include: - Jisc received flat funding from various government bodies but had to absorb a £1.5 million cut and £2 million in inflation costs. - Jisc will continue upgrading its Janet network and reviewing regional network provision. - Several projects will move from development to production, including learning analytics and research data discovery services. - Priorities for future co-design include next-generation learning environments, digital apprenticeships, and the intelligent campus.

1. The year ahead
Paul Feldman, Chief executive, Jisc
14/03/2017
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2. Funding for 2017/18
»The ‘good’ news:
› HEFCE, SFC, HEFCW, NI andWelsh Governments have given
us flat cash
»Less good
› As expected, DfE cut our funding by £1.5 million for FE in England
› Have to absorb £2m of inflationary impact
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3. …contd
»FE remains fully funded throughout the UK for 17/18
»Scotland HE has year two of our three year migration from a 90%
subsidy to an 80% subsidy, so bringing in line with England
»Northern Ireland HE continues with a 90% subsidy
»Wales HE continues with 80% subsidy, with that 80% recharged
back to HEIs by HEFCW
»HEFCE consulted UUK on the subscription remaining mandatory for
a further year in England, with a clear and positive recommendation
from the UUK board; due at HEFCE board this month
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4. HEFCE transition
»HEFCE should become Office for Students and UKRI (Research
England) in the next 12-24 months
»Government is consulting on how this split should happen
»“Where the investment in institutions can benefit both research and
teaching and it would be more effective and efficient for the two
bodies to work together, they will do so, for example on the important
ongoing provision of shared IT services byJISC”
»We are working with Government to maximise the Jisc funding that
continues from OfS and UKRI. Early days
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5. We have our first (draft) product launch roadmap
Services ready for launch by June 2018
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6. Janet
»Continue the mid-term upgrade to grow the backbone to
400-600Gb/s
»Start re-architecting of the network with a focus on the
regional aspects for greater efficiency and effectiveness
»A key part of this is reviewing provision so we have a fair
and universal model
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7. Cyber security timeline
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8. Above the campus technology services
»The northern data centre on track for coming on stream April 2017
»Consulting onWelsh and ready to on Scottish centres
»Grow use of ExpressRoute and have discussions with other cloud
providers to improve connectivity
»Bring Janet-connected cloud service options to you, so far the first
of many G-Cloud partners are Cogeco Peer1, Cloud9 and
Dimension Data
»Make govroam happen; prime targets are health and social care,
multi-sector buildings so that we can enable collaboration between
education, health and other services
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9. Library and research services
»Work with OCLC to make the national bibliographic knowledgebase
(NBK) a beta service for January 2018
»Look at new services which will support institutions to make more
strategic and informed approach to purchasing digital archive
collections
»Create an organisation data registry that incorporates the needs of
Library and open access services Develop Publications Router - part
of our work to develop an integrated set of open access services
»Develop an optional service to supportTNE by licensing extra UK
staff and students for digital content – around 50% of members
have overseas partnerships
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10. Jisc Collections
» Wiley
» Taylor & Francis
» Springer Nature
» Cambridge University Press
» Oxford University Press
» JSTOR
» British Standards Online
Jisc Collections have planned negotiations with:
» Project MUSE
» American Society of Civil Engineers
» Cengage Learning
» Annual Reviews
» Portico
» Institution of Civil Engineers
» Karger
» EBSCO
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11. For FE and Skills
»Support English FE institutions to implement area review
recommendations
»Help organisations like DfE and Department forCulture, Media and
Sport to use digital in new qualifications and standards
»Develop an apprenticeship offer to help deliver, assess, track and
monitor apprenticeships
»Help government departments deliver the industrial and
digital strategy
»Provide health and social care training service and look at other
potential services for skills sector
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12. Moving co-design projects into production
»Learning analytics will move into production
› 20 HEIs and colleges using it now, with a further 30 ready to sign
up by the end of the year; many more actively looking
› 86% of students want a learning app. Our app ‘Study Goal’ is now
from apple and android stores .You need to use the national
service to get full value but at the end of the month there will be a
demo log in for the University of Jisc so you can explore the app
› Evidence from the learning analytics pilot is being used to share
experiences and give guidance to all institutions about how it can
best support learning and teaching
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13. Moving co-design projects into production
»equipment.data has 46 organisations contributing 13,129 pieces of
equipment. Creating KPIs to evidence sharing, collaboration and
savings by June 2017. Please more of you share your equipment
»To tackle both the challenges and opportunities of data intensive
science we are enabling researchers to find and re-use research
data through research data discovery, our aggregation and
discovery service, which will move from beta to production in
Sept 2017
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14. Future priorities - codesign
»Around 600 of you from nearly 300 institutions gave us feedback on
what to tackle next:
› Next-generation learning environment
› The intelligent campus
› Digital apprenticeships
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15. Accelerating edtech in the UK
»Strategic partnership with Edtech UK:
› How can we accelerate the adoption
of edtech in UK institutions?
› How can we help institutions
and startups/scaleups to work together?
› What can we do to de-risk engagement
with small firms for institutions?
› Can we make the UK a ’learning laboratory’
for the best of British edtech?
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