CITSCAPES

Overview

CITSCAPES was a JISC funded project focussing on student ICT Literacy in Further and Higher Education. The CITSCAPES site still exists and includes reports on student ICT Literacy in Further and Higher Education, case studies showing a range of current practice in colleges and universities across the UK, and tools to help reflection and planning within your own institution.

Among its more benchmarking-related aspects, Citscapes adapted one of the MIT90s models (Venkatraman’s model) to create a transformation model oriented to education which describes the stages an institution may go through in the process of transforming from a traditional institution to an ICT led educational institution.

Details

Chapter 10 of the CITSCAPES Phase 1 report gives details.

Where used

No longer used.

Relevance to UK HE

Of historical interest only. Elements of CITSCAPES were incorporated into Pick&Mix and ELTI - in particular ELTI cites CITSCAPES as a "related project".

Elements are likely to have informed some FE benchmarking schemes also.

Further reading

1. CITSCAPES (2001). “The CITSCAPES Developmental Tool”. CITSCAPES Phase I Report, Chapter 10, November 2001. See http://www.citscapes.ac.uk/products/phase1/ch10.pdf.

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