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The ESCalate/ESRC/CRLL supported conference on The Teaching – Research Interface: Implications for Practice in HE and FE will be held at the University of Stirling on 29-30 April 2008.
This year’s conference promises to be an exciting event, packed with a mixture of over 60 presentations, keynotes, and workshops which cover the four interlocking conference themes [...]

In order to make the best use of e-learning, organisations need to change the way they work and to invest in both staff skills and capital equipment.
During 2007-08 the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) provided, through NIACE, over £3 million of capital investment to 191 local authority and
voluntary sector providers of adult learning.
The LSC has [...]

The West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network is currently organising the first annual West Yorkshire Adult Work-Based Learner Awards to be announced during national Adult Learners’ Week on 20th May and to be presented at their Celebration Event on 12th June.
These awards will recognise the achievements of employees throughout West Yorkshire who have succeeded in progressing [...]

ReLIVE08
The Open University is pleased to announce an international conference for Researching Learning in Virtual Environments to be held at its campus in Milton Keynes on the 20th and 21st of November 2008.
This conference will be of interest to anyone researching learning and teaching in virtual world environments such as Second Life.
The conference organisers are [...]

TextHelp Read/Write Gold is a literacy support tool designed to assist users of all ages who require extra assistance when reading or composing text. It is a well known piece of software to support learners with disabilities but it can, however, also be beneficial to non-disabled learners.
Mind Mapping software (e.g. Inspirations, Mind Genius, OpenMind, [...]

The following one-day JANET Training courses are running at The Life Centre, Newcastle:
Information Security Policies
16th April 2008
This course takes a broad view of what is needed to achieve the necessary level of information security, concentrating almost entirely on people, processes and policies, not on computers or networks. A full description of the course [...]

The JISC has commissioned a study into the use of Shared Services for administrative systems in FE and HE across the UK. The JISC has a web page about this at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/programme_jos/ssprev.aspx which explains in some detail what shared services are, as well as the purpose of the study.
You may well know that the [...]

The next meeting of the Digital 2010 Local Authority Education and 14-19 Reference Group, and the last one for the current academic year, will be on:Friday 9th May
10am to 12 noon
Business Solutions Centre, Old Mill Lane Site, Barnsley College
The meeting will be followed by a networking lunch and will cover.

E-learning in Yorkshire and the Humber
Where [...]

The Peter Shuker Award is awarded by AoC NILTA and recognises outstanding achievement in promoting and developing the use of ILT. Nominees are assessed on having work that:

Is recognised as valuable by their peers
Has a demonstrable effect on the use of technology within the nominee’s place of work
Has been built on by others to [...]

Sheffield College is now recruiting for the next run of its E-tutor course, which starts on 14 April 2008, and runs until 17 August.
The key facts about the course are that it:

is a 60 hour course, over approximately 15 weeks
is delivered in Moodle
develops the skills needed to support individuals and groups in online and blended [...]