Tom Franklin Consulting Ltd
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Last updated: 30 May 2011
Franklin Consulting
Clients
A selection of the clients that Franklin Consulting works with.
- Synthesis of the JISC Activity data programme. See http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/activitydata.aspx
- Programme managing the shared infrastructure services programme. See http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_rep_pres/shared_services.aspx
- Developing policy recommendations on the use of Web 2.0 for content creation for Learning and Teaching. The final report is now available, together with JISC's response and our comments on the response.
- Leading the development of Innovation Base, a place for sharing models of processes in higher education, and working with the community to build and share models.
- Developing recommendations on the development of registries for repositories
- Writing the Technical Options section of the JISC InfoKit Creating an MLE
- Evaluating the MLEs in Further Education Programme in Scotland and Wales (SWaNI). See the evaluation report
- Editing the first edition of the e-
learning Framework (ELF) and support for the current edition - Report on the impact that national services have had on teaching and learning, and in particular the factors that have led to nationally provided services having a greater or lesser impact on teaching and learning
The Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience
The Committee is an independent body, chaired by Professor Sir David Melville CBE, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Kent, and backed by the leading bodies in UK higher and further education. Its is to consider the impact of the newest technologies such as social networking and mobile devices on the behaviour and attitudes of students coming up to and just entered higher education and the issues this poses for universities and colleges.
As part of this it commissioned a report on a review of current and developing international practice in the use of social networking (Web 2.0) in higher education. This can be downloaded in Word or PDF format. The final report can be downloaded here.
Working jointly with Telaman on e-
- Analysing the Distributed Learning development projects to provide understanding of the change processes.
- Supporting the deployment of e-
assessment for Manchester Business School Worldwide.
Providing strategic advice on student created content
Providing strategic advice on the selection and implementation of a virtual environment for learning and a virtual environment for research and the integration of these with the university portal.
Providing strategic and technical advice to Connect: the Learning and Teaching Portal Project . This includes the areas of:
- Connect Services -
the scope and coverage of services - Metadata standards
- Interoperability -
both metadata and technical interoperability for web services - Embedding within college and university portals and web sites.
Observatory of Borderless Higher Education
I have written three reports for the Observatory of Borderless Higher Education
- Innovative Adoption of Web 2.0 Technologies: Emerging Policies, Practices & Strategies for University Leaders (May 2009)
- Web 2.0 for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (August 2007)
- Portals in Higher Education: Concepts & Models (February 2004)
supporting development of e-
the EU funded Telcert Project (Technology Enhanced Learning Conformance -
Developing interfaces for a data centre simulation system
E-
Research to develop a model of the e-
other clients
- University of Warwick
- University of Southampton
- Becta
- Institute of Education
- Liverpool Hope University
- Intute
- University of Worcester
- Association for Learning Technology
- Scottish Qualifications Agency
- University of Bolton
- JISC Regional Support Centres
- University of Liverpool
- Coleg Sir Gar
- UKERNA (now Janet)
- Maven Associates
- City University