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Management Skills for Technical Staff
Part 1 – 22-23 April, Aston Business School
Part 2 – 6 May, online
Part 3 - 26-27 May, Aston Business School
Booking deadline: Friday 3 April 2009

http://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/sdg/Events/2009/managementskills.aspx

This new programme employs blended learning, offering participants a comprehensive range of online
resources accessible 24/7 along with dedicated online facilities such as a discussion forum and
tutor-support (by email).
There are two residential [...]

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The JISC Digitisation programme is pleased to announce that a new funding call will be issued at the beginning of March 2009.  The call will focus on three key themes.

Institutional Skills and Strategies – including activities aimed at embedding digitisation into institutional strategies and practices, eg development of institutional skills, policies and capacity to perform [...]

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The Digital 20/20 website is now live!
Digital 20/20 is “Yorkshire and Humber’s initiative to ensure that the people and organisations in our region have the capabilities to get the most out of living, learning, working and doing business in the digital world”.
Digital 20/20 is currently seeking technology training proposals.
Public institutions, private training providers and individual [...]

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You may remember that there were two bidding opportunities a year of so ago for colleges who were interested in becoming Technology Exemplar Colleges.  Amongst Specialist Colleges the National Star College was successful in the first round and  a group of other Specialist Colleges and one FE college were successful in the second round competition [...]

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The National e-Science Centre has organised a five-day workshop on “The Influence and Impact of
Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Applications and Users”, which will be held between 23 March, 09 09:30 AM – 27 March, 09 05:00 PM at the e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh.
Day 1 – Web 2.0 technologies
Day 2 – Clouds
Day [...]

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Encoding Digital Video for Streaming and Network Delivery

Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th March 2009
10.30 am – 5.00 pm  
 
Day One: Introductory Course, 4th March 2009.
Offers an introduction to digitising moving images for online delivery and tackles problems, which may be encountered in the process.
Day Two: Advanced Course, 5th March 2009
Designed to follow on from the [...]

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This will be of interest to all community development practitioners both paid and unpaid. The Federation for Community Development Learning are working with LLUK on Stage 2 of the Community Development Work National Occupation Standards to consult with practitioners on the standards. If this is of interest to you, use this opportunity to have your [...]

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eCPD Programme Enhancing Learning
You can register on the online learning space now!
The new online learning space is a growing community of practice, developed with representatives from the whole FE system.
Register now at http://ecpd.bdplearning.com to start networking with colleagues across the country and to access the latest eCPD framework and resources. 

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The JISC invites tenders to conduct a six-month user behaviour observational study of students and researchers in higher education who are studying business studies and economics.
The aims of the study are to:

Demonstrate the issues that real users face when navigating the web and interacting with scholarly resources;
Identify the implications of these findings for publishers, librarians [...]

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ALT-C 2009: “In dreams begins responsibility” – choice, evidence, and change 8-10 September 2009, Manchester, UK

Third and final call for papers and abstracts – DEADLINE EXTENDED, 2 March 2009
Please read down further for an important note about submissions.
Keynote speakers:
Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, USA
Terry Anderson, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education [...]

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