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Dr Phil Richards, Chief Innovation Officer, Jisc For EUNIS Congress 2015
10/06/2015 Jisc Research & Development: faster horses or racing cars?
» About Jisc
» Jisc Research & Development (R&D)
» Jisc’s co-design process and progress
» Future challenges and opportunities
» Summary
Outline
About Jisc
Mission To enable people in higher education,
further education and skills in the UK
to perform at the forefront of
international practice by exploiting
fully the possibilities of modern digital
empowerment, content and
connectivity
Our vision & mission
Vision
To make the UK the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world
UK higher and further education in numbers
What does Jisc do?
Does 4 things…
Providing and developing a network infrastructure and
related services that meet the needs of the UK research and
education communities
Supporting the procurement of digital content for UK education and research
Our network of national and regional teams provide local
engagement, advice and support to help you get the
most out of our service offer
Our R&D work, paid for entirely by our major funders, identifies
emerging technologies and develops them around your
particular needs
Jisc does 4 things…
Our work in this area includes:
» Security
» Connectivity
» Access and identity management
» Procurement
» Cloud
» Internet and IP services
» Telecoms
» Videoconferencing
Our work in this area includes:
» Journals
» e-books
» Maps and geospatial data
» Learning and teaching resources
» Resource discovery
» Film and images
» Repositories
In this area we provide:
» A single point of contact through a dedicated account manager
» Subject specialists
» Communities of practice and peer networking
» Local stakeholder for a
» Training
» A range of online and face to face events (eg Digifest, Networkshop)
We are currently running 34 R&D projects including the following topic areas:
» Collaboration
» Curation and preservation
» Data and analytics
» Digital literacy
» E-learning and VLEs
» Libraries
» Open access
» Research and research data
Jisc across the UK
How we engage with you…
With dedicated local staff and access to a team of subject specialists, you can access and make best use of Jisc's products and services
tailored for colleges, universities and skills providers in your region as well as the ability to attend national/regional conferences.
Alyson Dacey Head of Jisc Wales T 0203 819 8254 E alyson.dacey@jisc.ac.uk
Jason Miles-Campbell Head of Jisc Scotland T 0203 819 8253 E jason.miles-campbell@jisc.ac.uk
Lyn Bender Head of Jisc South West and Midlands T 0203 819 8243 E lyn.bender@jisc.ac.uk
Will Allen Head of Jisc North T 0203 819 8252 E will.allen@jisc.ac.uk
John Potter Head of Jisc South and East T 0203 819 8220 E john.potter@jisc.ac.uk
Pete Scott Head of Jisc London (interim) T 07766 442259 E peter.scott@jisc.ac.uk
Income: Jisc funders & funding
Savings achieved with no service reduction
Jisc annual funding
Jisc Research & Development (R&D)
The Jisc R&D proposition
The goal is
Delivered by
Facilitated by
Using
Developing new national shared technology services
Collaborating across the sector
Jisc as a national body with a technology focus
Jisc’s co-design innovation process
R&D and Jisc service pipeline
Projecting the future value to sectors of Jisc R&D
Jisc’s co-design process and progress
Co-design principles
Focused
User-centred Agile
Partnership
Experimental
The co-design process
Co-design partners – we have listened
142 ideas considered
24 defined and pitched
5 challenges prioritised
>100 senior stakeholders prioritised ideas
> 1000 colleagues consulted
Co-design challenges
Research at risk (R@R)
Prospect to alumnus (P2A) Learning analytics
Digital learning & capabilities Implementing FELTAG
Business intelligence
Hosting platform Hosting platform
Jisc Summer of Student Innovation
How it works:
» Create – Make a video to explain your idea
» Share – Upload your video and encourage people to vote
» Vote - If you hit the voting target we will consider it for funding
So if you have a brainwave, come and join us for a Summer of Student Innovation:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/summer-of-student-innovation
The first success story
Worldwide take up
» 105 active UK universities
» 92 international universities
National learning analytics pilot service
The problem: only ~30 HEIs & FEIs have access to predictive learning analytics • Used to identify learners
not engaged, improving retention
The solution: national learning analytics system: • Service with cloud–based
infrastructure • Community • Toolkit
The opportunity: • bring modern BI and
analytics to all UK HEIs and FEIs at low cost
• Extend to personalised learning and ‘big data’ measures of learning gain
The partners: Jisc, SCONUL, HESPA, sector leaders and practitioners National service live Sept 2015
National Learning Analytics solution by licence type
Going live September 2015
26/11/2013 Jisc Co-design
The problem: • Duplication of effort
creating modern applications
• No mobile/modern .ac.uk authentication service
The solution: modern hosting platform, authentication & integration layers, community and marketplace
The opportunity: a single platform and marketplace, lowering cost of entry to market
The partners: Jisc, app developers, sector software suppliers Now: available to developers Due: App Store July 2015
Application hosting platform
Based upon: Google stack
App store and community
Authentication, authorisation & consent
First & third party apps
APIs and developer services
Cloud platform and services & integration
Jisc application hosting stack
App store &community
Authentication, authorisation & consent
First & third party apps
APIs and developer services
Cloud platform and services & integration • Analytics • Business Intelligence • Data Services • Open Resources….
The problem: ~20 UK HEIs, have access to modern BI tools that are the norm in many other industries
The solution: • New, modern HEIDI+
HESA statistics • HEIDI Lab sandbox • BI maturity model • Training & support
The opportunity: bring modern BI and analytics to all UK HEIs at low cost
The partners: Jisc, HESA, HESPA When: now/Sept 2015
National HE Business Intelligence (BI) Service
National HE Business Intelligence Service
HEIDI Lab – live now HEIDI+ – going live autumn 2015
“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.”
Metaphor primer #1
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford (allegedly)
Metaphor primer #2
Some faster horses
Enough racing cars?
No camels
Co-design initial feedback
Be more radical!
Move faster!
We have certainly listened!
Future challenges and opportunities
The perennial problem we are trying to solve
How can we help save our sectors £100Ms per annum?
Shared corporate systems – ‘Jisc in a box’
The problems: • £100Ms duplication of
effort in non-academic systems
• Licence cost issues with large database supplier
The solution: • a shared set of non-
academic corporate apps (Finance, HR, etc.)
• No loss of academic autonomy
The opportunity: • Save the sectors > £100M
PA • No loss of academic
autonomy
The barriers: • Highly heterogeneous non-
academic business processes
• Human factors favouring local control
Precedents: HE in Italy, Spain, FE Sussex
Current Jisc work: FE scoping in Northern Ireland
Benefits of scale
“… construction of extremely large-scale, commodity-computer data centres at low-cost locations… uncovered the factors of 5 to 7 decrease in cost of electricity, bandwidth, operations, software and hardware at these very large economies of scale.”
Armburst, Armando Fox et al., Above the Clouds, Berkeley
The Janet network
Our ‘national grid’ for leveraging industrial scale
(and GÉANT network)
Industrial scale data centre Industrial scale data centre
Universities and research institutions
Downscaling the institutional data centre
The problems: • £100Ms on infrastructure
without economy of scale • Lack of agility in responding
to research infrastructure needs
The solution: • Reduce/phase out inefficient
institutional data centres • Fully harness power of Janet
network for our sectors
The opportunity: • Save the sectors > £100M PA,
plus carbon savings • No loss of academic autonomy
The barriers: • Cloud suppliers not passing on
economies in pricing, esp. data egress
• Human factors favouring local control
Precedents: US HE, large devolved corporates e.g. IBM
Current Jisc work: cloud framework, shared data centre
equipment.data + Kit Catalogue
Equipment sharing – the next phase
The problems: • £Bns of publicly-funded
research infrastructure not optimally shared
The solution: • Enhanced and merged
equipment.data + Kit Catalogue
• Open data on public-funded equipment sharing
The opportunity: • Better sharing of adding
£100Ms value to UK research • No loss of academic autonomy
The barriers: • Joined-up information systems
enabling better sharing • Human factors favouring local
control
Precedents: some early successes with sharing and Kit Catalogue in N8, M6, etc.
Current Jisc work: leveraging equipment.data, merging with Jisc Kit Catalogue
HEDIIP landscape model and Jisc information hub prototype
www.jisc.ac.uk/rd/projects/information-hub-prototype
Jisc – the sectors’ trusted educational big data broker?
The problem: • 100s require reporting on same
data sets • Efforts to measure ‘learning
gain’ overlooking big data
The solution: • Enhanced and merged
equipment.data + Kit Catalogue
• Open data on public-funded equipment sharing
The opportunity: • Statistical returns at a click • Measuring learning gain cracked • UK at forefront of new data-
driven global learning model
The barriers: • Multi-tenant hub and data
model – proved at pilot scale • Human factors – who do we
trust with our data?
Precedents: Jisc, King’s College London, UCL, Birmingham, Plymouth & York St John have built something concrete here
Future Jisc work: keen to work with HEDIIP blueprint, to scale up our pilot and implement their model
Summary
Summary
» New Jisc organisation in place
› Significant internal efficiencies delivered
» Jisc R&D and co-design delivering new shared services
» Still the need to help sectors save £100Ms PA
› Jisc part of solution, not part of problem
› New, radical approaches required
Find out more…
Dr Phil Richards Chief Innovation Officer
phil.richards@jisc.ac.uk
One CastleparkTower HillBristolBS2 0JA T 020 3697 5800
info@jisc.ac.uk jisc.ac.uk
Extra slides
FELTAG coalition members
Moving faster – Futures framework live July 2015
Lot 1: Software developer services - £6M
Lot 2: Project Management consultancy services - £500K
Lot 3: Economic Analysis consultancy services - £500K
Lot 4: Market Research consultancy services - £500K
Lot 5: Evaluation consultancy services - £500K
Lot 6: Enterprise Computing consultancy services - £500K
Lot 7: Information Management and Library consultancy services - £500K
Lot 8: Learning Analytics consultancy services - £1M
Lot 9: Research and Research Data Management consultancy services - £1M
Lot 10: Teaching, Learning and the Student Experience consultancy services - £1M
Lot 11: Metadata, vocabularies, standards and protocols consultancy services - £500K
Lot 12: Intellectual Property Rights and Licensing consultancy services - £500K
Lot 13: European Commission Funding Processes and Coordination of Activities consultancy services - £500K
Lot 14: Data, Text Mining and Data Visualisation consultancy services - £500K
Lot 15: Business Intelligence consultancy services - £500K
Lot 16: Technical Architects consultancy services - £500K
Lot 17: Scenario planning consultancy services - £500K
Co-design challenges
Co-tutor
56
End 2015
A student and staff relationship management system. Staff can use Co-Tutor to communicate with and manage their personal tutees, project students, Industrial placement activities, PGR supervision and module cohorts.
http://co-tutor.lboro.ac.uk/signon/
Contact: Martin Hamilton Due
Probable
Likelihood
Not identified
Jisc destination
Jisc Elevator
57
Mid 2015
A website that allows people to pitch ideas and other people to vote on the ideas that they like. The site will be able to support multiple concurrent competitions and will be able to be used by people inside and outside of Jisc
http://elevator.jisc.ac.uk/
Contact: Andy McGregor Due
Definite
Likelihood Customer services?
Jisc destination
Research data discovery UK
58
Early 2016
A service that will make it easier for researchers to discover research datasets.
Due
Possible
Likelihood
Digital resources
Jisc destination
Journal data policy bank
59
Mid 2016
A website that curates a collection of the policies that journals have about how to submit research data related to articles
Contact: Rachel Bruce
Due
Probable
Likelihood
Digital resources
Jisc destination
Global Transit Tata
Global Transit GTT
Global Transit Level3
Manc’r
T’house North
Global Transit
10Gbit/s
1Gbit/s
100Gbit/s
Telecity HX
Leeds Core PoP Global Transit
Tata
Global Transit GTT
Global Transit Level3
Edge-IX
Manc’r
IXManchester
GÉANT
GÉANT+
T’house North
LINX
Public Peering
IXLeeds
10Gbit/s
1Gbit/s
100Gbit/s
Telecity HX
Leeds Core PoP
Pathe News
Akamai
Virgin Radio
Bogons
Logicalis UK Pipex
BBC
Datahop
InTechnology
INUK
RM Education
LINX multicast
NHS
Redstone
Global Transit Tata
Global Transit GTT
NetrinoUK Gamma
Updata
aql
Voicenet
Global Transit Level3
Akamai
Google Edge-IX
Manc’r
VM
NetrinoUK
IXManchester
Limelight
Limelight
InTechnology
NHS
Akamai BTnet
Gamma
Exa Net
GÉANT
Init7
Amazon
Microsoft
Synetrix
TMnet
GÉANT+
Globelynx
Microsoft
BBC (games)
VM
T’house North
VM
BBC (games) One Connect LINX
Glasgow Core PoP
HEAnet
BBC (games)
Private Peering
IXLeeds
10Gbit/s
1Gbit/s
100Gbit/s
Telecity HX
Leeds Core PoP
Pathe News
Akamai
Virgin Radio
Bogons
Logicalis UK Pipex
BBC
Datahop
InTechnology
INUK
RM Education
LINX multicast
NHS
Redstone
Global Transit Tata
Global Transit GTT
NetrinoUK Gamma
Updata
aql
Voicenet
Global Transit Level3
Akamai
Google Edge-IX
Manc’r
VM
NetrinoUK
IXManchester
Limelight
Limelight
InTechnology
NHS
Total capacity ≈870 Gbit/s Akamai BTnet
Gamma
Exa Net
GÉANT
Init7
Amazon
Microsoft
Synetrix
TMnet
GÉANT+
Globelynx
Microsoft
BBC (games)
VM
T’house North
VM
BBC (games) One Connect LINX
Glasgow Core PoP
HEAnet
BBC (games)
Janet: more than just bandwidth
IXLeeds
10Gbit/s
1Gbit/s
100Gbit/s
Telecity HX
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