Tuesday, August 02, 2005

JISC £15 million for IT and open content

The Joint Information Systems Committee, JISC, have been given an "extra £15m to invest in IT initiatives to support learning, teaching and research." (on top of £25 million they got earlier in the year).

According to the announcement,

The funds, totalling £40m, will be used for a range of activities and represents a significant investment to support and enhance further the UK’s digital infrastructure, access to online content and the development of digital repositories...

The funding, which covers the years 2006 – 2008, will be invested in the following areas of activity:

continued development of the JANET network, including the incorporation of the UKLight testbed network, which links communities of researchers around the world, to JANET;

further digitisation of major scholarly collections;

enhancement to a range of e-learning programmes, including e-assessment, e-portfolios and e-learning tools;

development of the e-infrastructure, including the development of collaborative environments, such as virtual research environments;

development of a shared infrastructure to support the growing use of institutional repositories."

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