JISC RSC YH Exchange News

For staff in all schools affiliated to the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust:
SSAT would like to draw your attention to the following conference – the annual major event for implementing new technologies and addressing ICT issues:
For more information and to apply, please see our website for details:
www.schoolsnetwork.org.uk/ictconference
21-22 October, Nottingham Belfry Hotel
Using technology is changing the way we [...]

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As part of a range of offers for Technical and Infrastructure staff this Autumn, the JISC RSC YH are hosting a FREE course “Taming the Macintosh”.
Taming the Macintosh
7, 15, 23 October 2008
NTI Leeds, Old Broadcasting House
Students are no longer perceived as merely attending a course for personal and academic gain. Instead, they are paying customers who [...]

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A new report has been released from DIUS that updates stakeholders on progress on the transfer of planning and funding responsibilities for 16-19-year-olds from the Learning and Skills Council to local authorities.
Download the report from here: http://www.info4local.gov.uk/documents/publications/964893

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JISC Collections would like to thank the 250 colleges that responded to the recent consultation to assess the demand for e-books in the FE sector.
Following the excellent response, the Learning and Skills Council provided JISC Collections with funding to procure a core collection of e-books, and to host the collection on an e-books platform, specially [...]

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Register now for the third international JISC online conference, taking place on 4-7 November 2008.
This important conference for practitioners and managers embedding e-learning into their practice focuses on the tension between the tried and tested and the wholly innovative. e-Learning may now have established a foothold in learning and teaching, but are the demands of [...]

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Two new JISC resources on e-portfolios have been launched at ALT-C in Leeds.
The first is a new guide in the JISC Effective Practice series, Effective Practice with e-Portfolios, which explores good practice in the use of e-portfolios throughout a lifetime of learning.
The guide complements a new infoKit on e-portfolios from JISC infoNet which [...]

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Excellence in e-Learning Forum
Thursday 9 October 2008
Wakefield College
10:00 – 16:00
***LIMITED PLACES – BOOK NOW!***
As a result of demand from the region, the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber is hosting a series of forums/meetings badged within our Excellence in e-Learning strand.
The meetings will be a means of updating the sector on regional and national [...]

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Strong leadership and clear vision, challenging aspirations and targets, and a thorough process of progress monitoring and self-assessment, are just a number of ways colleges can raise the bar and work towards achieving outstanding status.
The report, How Colleges Improve: A Review of Effective Practice, published today by the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services [...]

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Excellence in Learning Spaces Forum
Tuesday 30 September 2008
York College
10:00 – 15:00
This FREE forum is for managers and others who have an interest in new build or are planning or in the process of a new build at their institution.  We have held a successful inaugural meeting at Calderdale College in July and now plan to [...]

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If you work for an English FE college (including sixth form colleges but not school sixth forms) you can consider proposing a MoLeNET project in response to an LSN Invitation to Tender (ITT).
Alternatively you might wish to join with other colleges/schools/learning providers to form a MoLeNET consortium that would propose a project in response to [...]

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