It is important to ensure some form of overview information from TASC on project level dissemination, in order to provide the context and add any health warnings about projects. The working group recommends that each project have its own evaluation strategy as well as a dissemination strategy. This does not apply to studies. TASC should identify a member to take responsibility for introducing evaluation into the TASC programme. Professional evaluators could be commissioned to evaluate the projects and should be expected for the overall programme.
Formative evaluation is particularly useful and ties in evaluation and dissemination.
Best practice can then be captured and promulgated more easily. It is important for JISC personnel and the community to know who gets sent what information and reports, how and why. V-Cs copy these to Heads of Departments in their institution. CALT should take responsibility for forming a view on how each recommendation should be addressed and by whom, and pass these on to relevant JISC committees. There is a clear role for the Secretariat, HoP and Co-ordinators in working out who should pick up recommendations where decisions are not clear cut.