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JISC Collections is seeking suitably qualified people to take part in the evaluation process for this Digital Images for Education project.
The Digital Images for Education Project comprises three separate tenders to supply still and moving images for the long-term use by the UK education community (schools, Further Education, and Higher Education). The three tenders are:

Still [...]

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The Learning and Skills Network has introduced MoLeTV which will be targeted primarily to colleges in England, under the auspices of the Learning and Skills Council.
 
Use of this new digital media site enables registered users to upload media in most of the common formats – AVI, MP4, MP3, Windows Media and Quicktime. The uploaded media [...]

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A new approach to tackling the problem of online bullying in colleges was announced at BETT, with the launch of NetModerator, by internet firm Crisp.
Previewed at the BETT show at London’s Olympia ahead of its official launch in the spring, NetModerator is designed to help schools and colleges protect students from abuse and bullying. Using [...]

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UCISA2009 Annual Management Conference
Wednesday 11 to Friday 13 March 2009
Arena and Convention Centre, BT Conference Centre, Liverpool
Bookings for the UCISA2009 Annual Management Conference and Exhibition are now open.  UCISA is the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association.
A couple of new items for this year:
* pre-conference presentations and customer meetings on Wednesday morning. 
* FREE exhibition passes to [...]

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Despite expectations, the use of Virtual Learning Environments across schools and colleges has been slow to take off. Enthusiasm and peer support from teachers and learners should help the initiative develop more widely, says Ofsted.
These are the main findings in the report Virtual learning environments: an evaluation of their development in a sample of educational settings, published [...]

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The national launch conference for the Learning and Skills Improvement Service’s eCPD Programme will  be held on Thursday 5 February 2009.
The conference will build on the outstandingly successful e-learning practitioner conferences held in 2005 and 2007 which were organised by QIA and ALT and supported by partners including Becta, JISC, NIACE, LSN and CEL.
Details of this important event are [...]

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The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the National Endowment for the Humanities (http://www.neh.gov) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (http://www.nsf.gov) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (http://www.sshrc.ca) from Canada invites institutions to submit proposals for the Digging into Data Challenge: http://www.diggingintodata.org/
The goals of the initiative are:

To promote the [...]

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Does online learning matter to you?
Limited places are left at the following one-day training events: “Online learning matters – Extending your organisation’s learning provision”. 
Wednesday 21 January 2009 – Sheffield
Monday 26 January 2009 – London
Tuesday 3 February 2009 – Derby
Book now to secure a place on one of these practical, one-day training events.
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Further and higher education establishments across the country could save thousands of pounds – and thousands of tonnes of CO2 emissions – just by introducing simple measures, according to a report issued today by JISC.
The report presents the findings of JISC’s Green Technology report, and outlines ways in which the intelligent use of technology can create savings of cost, [...]

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Many of you will have come across the open source Xerte tool that the JISC TechDis have been excited about. Developed by the eLearning team at Nottingham University it creates highly accessible content, now runs as a web toolkit from an installation on your server and allows staff with few skills to create high quality learning objects.
JISC TechDis are sponsoring a [...]

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