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Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision

'to provide the UK education community with long term access to the digital image resources that it needs, in a variety of convenient, flexible and easy-to-use ways. Ideally, provision should be: free at the point of use; comply with common open standards; cover the broadest possible range of subject areas, have copyright clarity, be sustainable; and support maximum usage at all levels of teaching, learning and research'
JISC Images Working Group Vision, 2005

JISC Images Book cover 

In 2005, the JISC Images Working Group set about formalising its vision for the provision of digital images in UK higher and further education. In doing so, it consulted widely among those with an interest in creating, using and managing images for teaching, learning and in academic research, for the vision was to be strongly grounded in community needs and concerns.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the digital image landscape by setting out:

  • the vision, its background and progress towards its realisation
  • digital image creation, use and management in and beyond UK education
  • a summary of the findings from a series of reports commissioned by JISC to examine different aspects of the provision of images for use in education

A concluding chapter explains the steps that JISC is encouraging the community to take to ensure that the vision is achieved.

You can download the complete version of this book which is available as a medium resolution PDF or a low resolution PDF file (for faster download) or if you are interested in a particular chapter you can download and view the appropriate sections. 

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