For more information on different aspects of the project, please follow the links below:

• Information about the project evaluation
• Research pilots currently being discussed or in action:
  • Persistent community pilot
  • Persistent identity pilot
  • Further communication pilot
  • New Media Literacy pilot

• Relevant Project documentation

For an overview of the interconnecting themes, issues and plans for the project see this mind-map

Project News

• 24/03/09 Visitor resident poster presented at CAL 09
• 03/09/08 All except the Mobile Participation pilot are ready to launch with all 34 of our short online distance courses this autumn.
• 26/07/08 The Isthmus 'Visitor - Resident' idea described in a detailed blog post:  http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2008/07/23/not-natives-immigrants-but-visitors-residents/
• 07/02/08 View results of one of our student surveys which have informed the design of the pilots (in conjunction with a set of interviews):  http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=OqAQ0YkSsll_2byboze0gI8JCUVMkmjvWpzdkjO1Fu37g_3d
• 04/02/08 Isthmus talk given at the 'SHock of the Old' conference in Oxford:  http://www.slideshare.net/whitedavepaint/blurring-boundaries-taking-advantage-of-society-online/
• 22/11/07 FaceBook group launched as part of the 'Persistent Community' pilot
• 20/09/07 JISC Interim Report submitted today
• 31/07/07 We have now closed down our 3 surveys with a total of nearly 300 respondents, now we have to start analysing them.
• 13/03/07 We have just launched the project wiki where we will be keeping up to date information about what we are doing.

Find more information about our thoughts on this project and other things in the TALL Blog's Isthmus category .

Contacts

For further information about the project, please contact:

•  David White – project lead
•  Marion Manton – evaluator
•  Matt Street – developer
•  David Balch – developer
•  Mike Taylor – systems admin