JISC RSC YH Exchange News

The Centre for Excellence in Leadership’s Leading the learner voice awards, now in their second year, celebrate the achievements that individuals and organisations in the further education and skills sector have made in embedding the learner voice, and provide
the chance to hold up and disseminate examples of best practice. The closing date for nominations has [...]

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This project is investigating e-portfolio use within the field of Education. In addition to our survey of e-portfolio use in teacher education (available at https://www.heacademy.ac.uk/survey/teacher-ed), ESCalate are interested in obtaining written case studies by teacher educators of e-portfolios in practice in ITE departments.
Contributions should be approximately 1000 words long and will be entered into a [...]

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Between January and March 2008 155 learning professionals shared their Top 10 favourite tools for learning (either for their own personal learning or for creating learning for others) with the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies.
They used these lists to compile the Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008.
Download this free resource from [...]

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‘Playing with Learning’ – Unlocking the learning experience
Date: 5th June 2008
Location: Scarman House Conference Centre, Warwick
Playing with Learning is a unique opportunity for practitioners to engage with innovative and exciting ways of energising learning with Higher Education Students.
This event, organised by The Higher Education Academy HE in FE Enhancement Programme Team, has been designed to [...]

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MSc Multimedia and E-learning, University of Huddersfield is a part time online course with 6 Saturday day schools.
Interested in progressing your career? Want to get credit for the work you are doing? Most assignments are projects which can be tailored to your work context. Participants are typically lecturers or academic related roles in [...]

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As part of their regional workshop programme Netskills are delivering the following workshops at Newcastle University in June:
1. Podcasting: A Practical Guide, 10th June
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Producing a podcast is simple, but producing one that people will want to listen to takes a bit more know-how! What’s the best format for your show? What equipment do you need? [...]

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Further Education Colleges “make a highly significant contribution to higher level provision”, according to new research published by the Learning and Skills Council.
The research was an analysis of existing research and MI data plus a small number of qualitatively oriented interviews with stakeholders in further education colleges and in professional bodies in order to gain [...]

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The Repositories Support Project (RSP) is a major JISC initiative to support the development and growth of the UK repositories network. The RSP will co-ordinate and deliver good practice and practical advice to English and Welsh HEIs to enable the implementation, management and development of digital institutional repositories.
The RSP is contributing to building [...]

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The JISC RSC YH wishes all the best to to Heather MacDonald, who has recently announced she will be taking up the post of Principal of The Sheffield College.
Heather announced earlier this month that she will be leaving Wakefield College after 15 years, ten of which have been as Principal.
Heather says: “I have enjoyed my [...]

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Leading through equality and diversity – 21 May 2008
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL) will host its first conference dedicated to looking at equality and diversity issues across the further education and skills sector. One of CEL’s core objectives is to enhance the diversity profile in the sector, [...]

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