UK education is to benefit from over £7 million in grants and funding opportunities, as JISC launches its investment plan for the academic year 2009/2010.Over the next nine months JISC will be investing in a range of projects (from 12 months to three years in duration) across universities and colleges to support innovation in research, teaching and learning to aid the management of institutions.
Among the areas JISC will be funding are:
• Cloud computing for research
• Learning and teaching innovation grants
• Business modelling and sustainability for online content and collections to develop best practice
• A ‘digipedia’ prototype to bring together resources, standards, best practise and expertise on the digital content lifecycle
• Shared best practice for university researchers working with business and community groups
• Access and identity management
