JISC RSC YH Exchange News

In this season of festive cheer, JISC RSC YH is offering its supported learning providers the chance to win an iPod Nano!
We have three iPod Nanos worth £99 each to give away. All you need to do is answer just two quick questions on our online survey and your name will go into the [...]

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Introduction to JANET
29th January 2008
The Life Centre, Newcastle
The aim of this course is to improve delegates understanding of the network and associated services with a view to enabling them, and their respective organisations, to make effective use of their JANET connection. The focus of the course is the development of participants understanding of the network [...]

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Managing Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in Digital Learning Materials: A Development Pack for Institutional Repositories
Authors: John Casey, Jackie Proven & David Dripps
Download from:
http://trustdr.ulster.ac.uk/outputs.php
The pack is aimed at those who are setting up or running digital collections of learning materials that are managed at an institutional level. It is written in a clear and straightforward style [...]

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mLearn, the world’s flagship mobile learning conference, will take place in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Ironbridge in Shropshire, England in October 2008, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
The conference started in Birmingham and has since taken place in London, Rome, Cape Town, Banff and Melbourne.
The aims of the conference are to bring together [...]

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The JISC Monitoring Unit is currently undertaking its annual survey of the JISC-funded network infrastructure services; namely the JANET network and other services provided by JANET(UK). Feedback from the survey will be presented to the JISC Networking committee in the spring, informing future development of the network infrastructure services.
All institutions with JISC-funded JANET connections are [...]

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Do you know an adult learner whose achievements could inspire others?
Does your organisation, company, community group or learning centre offer a creative programme of learning that reaches out to adults?
Do you know a group or family who are working together towards a common goal or purpose?
If you know someone whose remarkable learning achievements [...]

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Netskills workshops running at venues across the UK in February 2008:
(Venues include Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester & Newcastle)

University of the West of England, Bristol

Databases on the Web, 5th February
Writing for the Web, 6th February

University of Leeds

Dreamweaver: the Essentials, 12th – 13th February

Birkbeck College, University of London

Databases on the Web, 5th February
Exploring XML, 6th February

University of [...]

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Our e-Learning Advisor (HE), Ali-Marie McAllister recently married and is now Ali-Marie Ladwa. Ali-Marie’s old email address will remain active for 3 months so please use this time to update your records to reflect her new email address, which is a.ladwa@leeds.ac.uk.

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John Denham, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills has announced the coming together of QIA and CEL to form an entirely new organisation dedicated to developing and supporting the excellent further education sector employers, learners and communities need.
Through this joint DIUS / CEL / QIA consultation, leaders who work in further education [...]

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Using Web 2.0 Technology in learning is all very well – but what if your computer won’t let you?
Creative Connectivity will look at the issues surrounding accessing Web 2.0 and other other e-learning materials when using a protected computer system. The day hopes to bring senior practitioners and ICT professionals together to look at [...]

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