Collaboration through technology:Moving from possibility to practice

Tim Boundy, Media services development team manager

Jisc… the things we do

Shared digital

infrastructure and

services

Expert and trusted

advice and practical

assistance

Sector wide deals with IT vendors and commercial publishers

What collaborative services do Jisc have?

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The Janet network

»Why is that important?»How does that impact me?

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Research and Collaboration

Media rich resourcesCloud campus

Distance LearningOption 5

Collaborate with Vscene

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Hardware Video Conferencing Virtual Classrooms

Desktop Video

ConferencingLive streaming

Session recording & download

No computer…no problem!Institutional Login

Free of charge!

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Vscene Infrastructure

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ISDN endpoint

Telephone

H.323/SIP Endpoint

Cisco MCUs

ISDN Gateways

Visimeet Servers

Vidyo Portal

VidyoReplay Cluster

VidyoRouter Pool

VidyoGateways H.323/SIP

Endpoint

Jisc

VCS Infrastructur

e

STREAM

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»Add a guest page

What are they doing with it?

We need to improve the teaching use

figures… because its

perfect for that!!

Broadcast classes/lessons - streamingRecording of sessions/lessonsStudent group work - collaborationStudent presentationsAssessment feedbackCollaboration projects between external partnersCourse planningBring in subject experts

Use cases

Use Cases

Broadcast classes/lessons – streaming

»provide a live stream of a workshop or presentation to multiple viewers.

»Remote expert speakers to provide a presentation online.

»broadcast free content externally

Use Cases

Recording of sessions/lessons»Lecturer wishes to record online

workshop/presentation to upload or link to their VLE. This will allow students to reinforce the topic or catch up.

»Lecturer conducts online feedback to individual students or groups. They wish this to be recorded as evidence and record of feedback.

»Lecturer has an assignment that requires groups to participate and hold regular group meetings. This is to be recorded so that the lecturer can ensure that these meetings happen and are conducted appropriately.

Use Cases

Student group work – collaboration

»Lecturer sets an assignment to students that requires collaboration, group/team work.

»Remote student participation.

»Options for tablet or smartphone devices.

Use Cases

Feedback

»A lecturer may wish to provide feedback to a student or student group using an online tool.

»This can involve screen sharing so the lecturer can highlight specific areas of concern or point the students towards resources.

»This will allow the feedback to be recorded and the student(s) can be clear of any follow up actions.

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Use Cases

Real life use case

Coming up shortly….Bethan Owen-Hughes, project coordinator

-  Sgiliaith, Grwp Llandrillo Menai

• Universities• Further Education Colleges• ACL/ Specialist Colleges

Higher and Further Education, Schools (DfE funded)

• Any publically funded research facilities• Collaborations with education

Research organisations (Funded/Self funded)

• Primary & Secondary education• Work based learning – where publically funded

Government funded schools (for small fee)

Who can use the service?

Vscene future

Vidyo

Integrate schedule

d VC features Uniform

layout in call

Recording for

every V room

Skype for BusinessNo

plugin-browser

VC (WebRTC

)

SIP Telephon

e to V rooms

Scaling on

Demand

Mobile App

Big ticket feature for late 2016

Benefit of new

infrastructure

vscene.jisc.ac.uk

vscene.ideascale.com

Janet txt

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Janet txt

»Safely and securely distribute SMS messages that can be accessed from any internet enabled device

»Integrate into management information systems to:- send timely information on course changes, site closures, reminders, tutorials, deadlines, etc- Receive feedback from students and staff

»Message individuals and groups»Real time delivery confirmation

A comprehensive suite of secure SMS messaging services provided by PageOne

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Cloud

Cloud services and support from Jisc

Helping institutions to move to the cloud»Co-location and shared data centres»Financial X-Ray – understand the

costs of your IT services»Data archiving framework agreement»Arcus portal for institutional

management of Amazon Web Services usage

»Board and committee paper management

»Deals with Google and Microsoft for their cloud collaboration suites

Streaming & Lecture Capture

Background

»Experience working with streaming »Pilot project - servers used by NaSTA, SRA

and the RSC

Streaming & Lecture Capture

• Approached by customers• Focus Groups• Lecture Capture is used by 63% of

institutions and 65% are using media streaming tools*• *2014 Survey of Technology Enhanced Learning for higher education in the UK By Richard

Walker, Julie Voce, Joe Nicholls, Elaine Swift, Jebar Ahmed, Sarah Horrigan and Phil Vincent

Procurement Framework

• Community defined prioritised features • Multi supplier framework

• At least 3 suppliers & a ‘Preferred Supplier’• approved suppliers host their services and

storage on Janet network• Institutions can use framework:

• A) Directly purchase from the ‘preferred supplier’• B) Engage suppliers in a mini competition

Anchor Tenants

• We would like up to 10 institutions to be listed on the procurement as ‘Anchor Tenants’

• Not a commitment to purchase• Indicates a strong vote of interest• Demonstrates an active market to suppliers

Use Cases

Now introducing…

Bethan Owen-Hughes, project coordinator -  Sgiliaith, Grwp Llandrillo Menai

Distance Learning Platform

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Bethan Owen-HughesProject coordinator, Sgiliaith, Grwp Llandrillo Menai.

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