The JISC visits Microsoft
Several members of the JISC executive committee visited Microsoft’s Reading office yesterday for the opportunity to jointly share some of the work we are doing in Higher Education. Here’s the agenda:
FINAL AGENDA
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10:30 – 10:45 |
Welcome and introduction |
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10:45 – 11:15 |
Overview of Microsoft in Higher Education |
Dominic Watts |
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11:15 – 12:00 |
Bologna, Lisbon and 2010 – Microsoft’s perspective |
Kimberly Voltero |
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12:00 – 12:40 |
The JISC - overview |
Craig Wentworth/Rachel Bruce/Bill Olivier |
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12:40 – 13:00 |
Lunch |
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13:00 – 14:30 |
Technology overview |
Nick Umney |
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14:30 – 15:30 |
Developer & Platform group |
Andrew Sithers |
Naturally, we didn’t stick to the letter of it but the agenda but this is the gist of the day.
The members from the JISC covered much of the main areas of Higher Education such as eLearning, eResearch and collaboration/middleware technologies. Part of the JISC overview session was to give Microsoft a feeling for the JISC’s e-framework. Microsoft is currently looking at how it can map the Learning Gateway on to the JISC’s e-Framework.
We spoke at great lenght about the needs for adopting open standards in Higher Education around areas such as Identity Management, Portals and general interoperability.
