This report describes the results of a series of discussion workshops where experts and experienced practitioners explored visions of how mobile technologies and devices will influence practice in Higher Education (HE) and Further Education (FE) in the near future.

The aim of the DINCoP project was to examine ways that the Emerge Community could be sustained and developed as a wider Community of Practice in the future. To do this, it looked at different Networks and Communities of Practice, especially those that aimed to stimulate and foster innovation in some way, to attempt to draw relevant lessons from these. Thus it is hoped that the work carried out and this report will have wider applicability, and be of use to anyone involved in developing innovation networks and Communities of Practice.

The International Staff website (www.internationalstaff.org) was launched at the University of Leeds in October 2007 to provide guidance for international staff coming to teach and support student learning in the UK. The website offers support in both a professional and personal context.

The JISC Emerge Benefits Realisation Programme provided funding for the further development of a PLE prototype, the Manchester PLE (often simply called the PLE below). This document provides first an overview of the project outcomes, and then foundations that the PLE draws on, the PLEs current functionality, and trial and usability testing.