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ACL Webinar – The Learning Revolution
4 June 2009

11.30am – 12.30pm
FREE Online Event
THE LEARNING REVOLUTION - Its impact on technology, your delivery and your funding
The Learning Revolution White Paper has provided learning providers across the country with focus and direction for the future of informal  learning.  But what role will technology play a part in that learning [...]

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The Learning and Skills Improvement Network (LSIS) will host a series of full day Subject Coaching network events throughout Yorkshire & Humber from 3rd – 26th June 2009.

 Business Education
 Construction
 Creative and Media
 E2E/FLT/AL
 Engineering
 Information Technology
 Land Based Studies
 Managers Network
 Maths
 Modern Foreign Languages
 Science
 Society Health and Development

Everyone from across the learning and skills sector is welcome. Whether you are from a work-based [...]

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The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Longley Park 6th Form College: LPTV – Networked TV for modern teaching
Tutors have long found using videos beneficial to visual learners. Longley Park 6th Form College has developed an in-house TV system that allows easy access, control, and flexibility for the organisation [...]

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Television and radio broadcast content is now available as an online streaming service to thousands of students and researchers for the first time following the launch of Box of Broadcasts (BoB National) by the JISC part-funded British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC).
The off-air recording and video archive service is available to staff and students of the Education Recording [...]

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Encoding Digital Video for Streaming and Network Delivery
Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th 
June 2009

10.30 am – 5.00 pm
Day One: Introductory Course, 16th June 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, 17th June 2009
. Designed to follow on from [...]

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The e-Learning Show – Lifelong Learning

Thursday, 21 May sees the pilot programme of a new JISC live internet radio programme, the e-Learning Show.
 
The programme will be broadcast from 1800 – 1855 UK summer time and is based on issues raised at the recent JISC Lifelong Learning Symposium. A report on the symposium and details will [...]

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HE in FE: Identifying and Preventing Plagiarism
A Workshop for STEM Practitioners in Further Education Colleges
Monday June 1st 2009, Wakefield College, West Yorkshire
This free workshop from the Higher Education Academy, led by Gill Rowell from PlagiarismAdvice.org, aims to provide Higher Education practitioners working in Further Education Colleges who are delivering across the Science, Technology, Engineering and [...]

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Bookings for the UKOLN Institutional Web Management Workshop 2009 are now open. This year’s event will be held at the University of Essex, Colchester Campus, from Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th July 2009.
The IWMW event provides an opportunity for those involved in the provision of institutional Web services to hear about institutional case studies, national [...]

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Organisations can now bid for a share of £20 million in Government cash to open up and promote informal learning for adults and young people across the country.
In a speech this week to NIACE’s Annual Policy Conference, Skills Secretary John Denham kicked off the bidding process, publishing a prospectus designed to show how a wide [...]

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JISC Collections invite proposals for a review of the business models that will enable further education students to pay for the e-books needed to support their studies.  The models may involve purchase of e-books by further education institutions, with a cost recovery model or further education institutions offering discounts to students who purchase electronic books [...]

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