Posted on behalf of Sonja Bisset
Regards
Dicky Maidmnet-Otlet

PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY 
**Apologies for cross-posting** 

The JISC currently have a number of calls for proposals (Circulars) 
available to the community and I would like to bring these to your 
attention:

C03/02 - A study of how a large scale introduction of networked 
learning across an institution makes a difference to the management and 
administration of that institution.  Funding of up to £100,000 is 
available.  Closing date for proposals: 12th July. 
C03/02 - A review of all available Information and Communication 
Technology Evaluation Toolkits.  Funding of up to £30,000 is 
available.  Closing date for proposals: 12th July. 
C04/02 - Projects to establish the concepts of Interoperability within 
Managed Learning Environments in the further education sector 
(Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland).  Funding of between £10,000 and 
£40,000 is available per project.  Closing date for proposals: 28th 
June. 
C05/02 - National JISC Centre of Expertise in the Planning and 
Implementation of Information Systems.  Funding of up to £500,000 is 
available.  Expressions of Interest to be received: 29th July.  Closing 
date for proposals: 2nd September. 

All of these circulars can be found on the JISC website at: 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub02/index.html.  Please note that an 
introductory guide to bidding for JISC funding is available at: 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/pub01/bidding_guide.html and this is intended to 
advise institutions/organisations that are not familiar with writing 
bids for the JISC.

The JISC is also advertising an Invitation to Tender for a study of 
Managed Learning Environment Activities in UK further and higher 
education.  This advert is at the end of this email for interested 
bidders and will appear in the THES and TES on Friday 7th June. 
Following approval the Invitation to Tender document will be made 
available on the JISC website before Friday 7th June.

Regards 
Sonja Bisset 
JISC Executive 
Tel: 0117 931 7385 
Fax: 0117 931 7255 
www.jisc.ac.uk 



JISC Invitation to Tender for

a Study of Managed Learning Environment (MLE) 

Activities in UK Further and Higher Education

This study will be undertaken on behalf of the Joint Information 
Systems Committee (JISC) and the Universities and Colleges Information 
Systems Association (UCISA).

JISC has funded a series of projects over recent years to explore the 
impact, development and integration issues related to Virtual and 
Managed Learning Environments in further and higher education.  The 
JISC would like to have a wider view across a broader range of 
institutions of the current level of MLE activity in the UK further and 
higher education sectors outside the JISC-funded programmes.  In 2001 
UCISA funded a survey of VLE implementation and use and this was widely 
disseminated to HE institutions. This joint study of activities will 
provide an opportunity to re-visit some of the areas that were explored 
within the UCISA survey and to investigate how the VLE landscape has 
changed.

This study should focus on the following four areas: 

i.      The provision of a definition (or set of definitions) of what 
constitutes MLE activity. 
ii.     The undertaking of a general survey of current and planned MLE 
activity (adhering to the agreed definitions) across a wide range of 
institutions across the FE and HE sectors including small and large 
colleges, new and old universities to build up a general description of 
the progress towards MLEs across the UK. As one part of this, the 2001 
UCISA survey of VLE use will be revisited and used as part of the 
survey to allow for longitudinal comparisons of data.

iii.    The provision of an analysis of the outcomes of the survey to 
investigate whether there are consistent patterns of MLE use according 
to specific factors such as the type of institution.

iv.     The development of a series of in depth case studies of 
successful and unsuccessful MLE implementation that covers the range of 
institution types identified above.

Funding of up to £85,000 will be made available for this study and it 
is anticipated that work will commence before the end of August 2002 
and be completed by June 2003.

A full invitation to tender can be obtained from Sonja Bisset, JISC, 
Northavon House, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QD.  Tel: 0117 931 
7385.  Fax: 0117 931 7255.  Email: [log in to unmask]

Further details on the JISC can be found at www.jisc.ac.uk.  The 
deadline for submission of full proposals is 12.00 noon on Friday 12 
July 2002.


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Dicky Maidment-Otlet
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
JISC ASSIST Coordinator 
University of Bristol
Tyndall Avenue
Bristol
BS8 1UD
Mbl: 0786 7552072
Tel: 0117 954 6850
Fax: 0117 929 1576
Email:[log in to unmask]
URL: http://www.jisc.ac.uk


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