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Next Generation Learning Awards 2009: Technology Excellence in FE & Skills
There are just a few weeks left for you to submit your entries for the Awards. To give more time for providers to get their entries in, the deadline has been extended to 31 July 2008.
These awards will reward all types of learning provider in [...]

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The University of Bolton have contacted us with details of a new Masters in Learning with Technology, developed in the new Institute for Educational Cybernetics (home of the JISC-CETIS service).
The degree is innovative in taking a work-focussed approach to maintain the highest possible relevance to students’ practice. The expectation of an exhibition as a final [...]

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The Sustainable Desktop?
Achieving Energy Efficient PCs in Universities and Colleges
2 September 2008
University of Sheffield
The JISC-funded SusteIT project is running a workshop on ‘The Sustainable Desktop’ at the University of Sheffield on September 2nd. The event focuses on ways of reducing IT-related energy consumption through computer powerdown; grid computing; procurement of low [...]

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The Association for Learning Technology has just published the full draft programme for ALT-C 2008, which will take place in Leeds between 9 and 11 September 2008. The programme describes a wide spectrum of short papers, workshops, symposia, research papers, posters, and demonstrations.
The keynote speakers are Hans Rosling, Itiel Dror, and David Cavallo. Invited speakers [...]

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Emerging Issues
The FE Workforce Reforms: One Year On
Friday 26 September 2008
10:30am – 3:30pm
Scarman House, University of Warwick,
Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL
Keynote Speaker: Professor Denis Gleeson, Institute of Education, University of Warwick
Update from the Institute for Learning: Dr Jean Kelly
Workshops:
WMCETT
Moving on with the Minimum Core
LONCETT
Teaching in a Prison Context
HUDCETT
Costs, benefits and solutions of using a [...]

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Tony Hirst (OU) has created a google custom search to look for open courseware and open educational resources. You can access the search page from
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009190243792682903990%3Ae40rcqv1bbo
The list of sources, almost 250 in total, is here
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html.
It is mainly for HE but suitable for FE and schools aswell.

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NIACE is now recruiting experienced e-learning practitioners to join their E-Guide trainer pool.
The E-Guides training programme, which supports staff in developing the use of e-learning, has been running since January 2004. The programme is now being funded for a further year, and participants will be from adult and community learning, work-based learning, offender learning [...]

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There are a few places remaining on JANET Training’s An Introduction to the UK federation course on the 10th July in London.
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of what is required of organisations wishing to join the UK Access Management Federation. The course will include suggested ways of deploying federated access [...]

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