Rapid Community Building session @ JISC Conference 2008
[notes from Alice Gugan]
Through the Emerge community of practice, we have an organic mechanism for cross-area sharing of ideas across departmental boundaries, from librarians to IT developers, from different institutions in different areas.
Following the Users & Innovation Development Model, the Community is built on Appreciative Inquiry (an asset- not needs-based development approach - ‘what’s right with what we’re doing now, rather than what’s
wrong’)
Some members have used the community as a bridge to further funding; others have joined and continue with it purely as a support and ideas-sharing unit.
Community explores all aspects of new technologies - audio, video, virtual environments - and has forged many smaller partnerships in the development of these areas.
Interested in more? Programme conference at the end of April:
www.jisc.ac.uk/nge2
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