Authenticated
Networked Guided Environment for Learning
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Authenticated
Networked Guided Environment for Learning
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Title of project: |
ANGEL |
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Award no: |
JILT/ANGEL (B4/B43) |
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Project Manager: |
John Paschoud |
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Project Team: |
London School of Economics, University of Edinburgh, South Bank University, De Montfort University, Sheffield Hallam University, EDINA |
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Duration of Award: |
Sep-2000 |
Feb-2003 |
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Period of Report: |
Sep-2000 |
Jan-2001 |
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Lead Institution: |
London School of Economics |
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Total amount: |
£ 378,997 |
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Total co-funding: |
£ 200,807 |
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I confirm that the current research is being conducted under the terms agreed in the initial contract with JISC.
Initial Formative Evaluation workpackage has not reported yet, so there are not yet any outcomes or findings to report.
| Deliverable due (within this period) | Month due | Month delivered | Status / Comment |
| D1.1
(Project Plan) |
4 | 6 | Delays due to initial negotiations between partners and with JCAS |
| D3.3 (internal email list) | 4 | 3 | Completed
early – needed to facilitate initial consortium negotiations (at angel-team@jiscmail.ac.uk) |
| Post | Based | Name & email (or post status) |
| Project Manager | LSE | John Paschoud <j.paschoud@lse.ac.uk> |
| Programmer | LSE | Simon McLeish <s.mcleish@lse.ac.uk> |
| Senior Researcher | SBU | Andrew Cox <coxam@sbu.ac.uk> |
| Researcher | SBU | Nicole Harris <harrisnv@sbu.ac.uk> |
| DMU Manager | DMU | John Eyre <jle@dmu.ac.uk> |
| Researcher | DMU | Mark Simpson |
| Technical Officer | DMU | Jason Ferguson |
| Programmer | DMU | (recruitment in progress) |
| Programmer | UED | (recruitment in progress) |
DNER Programme concertation workshop (Manchester, November 2000) was attended by John Paschoud, John MacColl, John Eyre and Andrew Cox. This was also used as an opportunity to meet (together with Alan Robiette of JCAS) to discuss project planning and design issues.
John MacColl attended a JCALT meeting on 24 November in Glasgow.
John Paschoud attended the Sparta workshop organised by Alan Robiette at Warwick in December 2000).
Email discussion with other cluster projects has been established, but appears to lacking any external direction on the roles of Cluster Steering Committees and their relationships to projects.
| Date | Medium | Details |
| 01-Aug-2000 | e-lists | Announcements
of ANGEL circulated to various relevant lists, including: lis-elib, jtap-all, authentication (JISCmail), diglib (IFLA) |
| 01-Aug-2000 | online journal | Announcement of ANGEL in LT World |
| 10-Jan-2001 | Conference | Mentioned at Builder conference by A.Cox in talk on authentication [http://builder.bham.ac.uk/conference/presentations.asp] |
| Jan-2001 | Internal newsletters | Brief descriptions of ANGEL in internal newsletters of UED, SBU, LSE |
Public website is established at http://www.angel.ac.uk, currently containing basic information about the project and contact details.
Initial Formative Evaluation workpackage is in the process of contacting and consulting user groups at each institutional partner.
Project Plan and Consortium Agreement have been under development, delayed due to initial time spent agreeing structure of project consortium and consulting with JCAS on scope and direction of the AN workpackage, but should be agreed by Project Board and submitted to DNER in early/mid-February.
Preparatory work has been started on detailed protocols for ISE of systems products.
Initial Formative Evaluation workpackage is in the process of contacting and consulting user groups at each institutional partner, but has not reported yet. A summary internal progress report on the IFE workpackage is appended.
Future plans are as shown in the Project Plan.
| Period: Sep-2000 to Jan-2001 | This period: | Cumulative for project: | |||
| 5 | months | 5 | months | Cumulative | |
| JISC budget | Actual | JISC budget | Actual | Variance | |
| Staff costs | £ 55,903 | £ 30,198 | £ 55,903 | £ 30,198 | -£ 25,705 |
| Travel & subsistence | £ 3,380 | £ 1,519 | £ 3,380 | £ 1,519 | -£ 1,861 |
| Dissemination items | £ 1,383 | £ - | £ 1,383 | £ - | -£ 1,383 |
| Consumables & other costs | £ - | £ 118 | £ - | £ 118 | £ 118 |
| Content licensing | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ - | £ - |
| Equipment | £ 2,500 | £ 1,395 | £ 2,500 | £ 1,395 | -£ 1,105 |
| Total: | £ 63,166 | £ 33,229 | £ 63,166 | £ 33,229 | -£ 29,937 |
Figures shown as "JISC budget" are calculated pro-rata (for the number of months covered by this report) from the total JISC grant for the project over 30 months.
Actual expenditure figures reported include expenditure from JISC grant and of partner co-funding ("institutional contributions").
The current underspend shown (£29,937) is within planned limits and due to staff posts not expected to be filled from the start of the project, and other expenditure which is not expected to be spread evenly throughout the course of the project.
The project partners have agreed that structured interviews will provide the most relevant data for the project and that these interviews will take the form of qualitative questions, which will be less restrictive to interviewees than set quantitative questions. The interviewer will actively encourage interviewees to be imaginative and forward thinking. The exception to this process will be an initial question asking interviewees to rate the importance and usability of selected resources. The responses to this question will form the basis of a Cost/Benefit analysis.
All arrangements required to satisfy T2.1 have been completed. A target of 10-15 interviewees per institution has been established, and dates for the interviews have been set. The interviewing process (T2.2) has begun at SBU.
Suitable courses and academic staff to participate in the Angel project have been identified, and are outlined elsewhere in this report. All partner institutions are in the process of providing full details of local resources to be included in the project to SBU for collation (T2.4).
Deliverable Three – Research of Issues, Standards and Existing Work
SBU are currently maintaining a full list of relevant issues, standards and existing work (T2.3). This list is contributed to, and discussed by, all project partners through the project mailing list. This list will provide supporting evidence for Deliverable Four and Deliverable Five, and will form the basis on which WP3 will be built.
A detailed action plan for WP2 has been completed and circulated to all project partners. A structured script and set of interview questions has been prepared and revised by SBU, and agreed upon by the project partners.
Individual reports of each interview will be prepared, and will be made available to all project partners and all interviewees.
No external reports will be completed for WP2 until the interviewing process is complete.