JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Quantum Projects - Closing date for applications is 13 July 2009
Do you have Professional Development Advisers (PDAs), E-Guides, Subject Learning Coaches or Advanced Learning Coaches in your organisation?
Learning and Skills Improvement Service’s (LSIS’s) Teaching and Learning Programme would like to invite you to take part in an exciting action research project using at least two change agents (PDAs, E-Guides, [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) is running a FREE workshop introducing simple and inexpensive Audience Analysis techniques so that your content or collection is visible to a target user group and can deliver services which provide the maximum public value.
These workshops also offer delegates the opportunity to make the most out of their collections and [...]

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British universities will lose their leading international standing unless they become much more radical in their use of new technology, a JISC commissioned report says.
British universities occupy four of the top ten world rankings and the UK is one of the top destinations for international students. But the Edgeless University, conducted by Demos on behalf [...]

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YouTube now has an education section: www.youtube.com/edu
There are thousands of videos from YouTube’s educational partners, mainly US colleges and universities.  You can browse by institution, by subscribed channels or by most popular videos.
Featured videos include recorded lectures, which can be a valuable resource.  YouTube videos can be embedded in other websites, such as blogs.
iTunes also have [...]

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*** See www.rsc-yh.ac.uk/technical/techoffers for details on how you could get this training free***
There are still places available on JANET Training’s Introduction to the UK federation course on the 29th June in Manchester.
Course Overview
The aim of this course is to provide an overview of what’s required of organisations wishing to join the UK Access Management Federation. [...]

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What’s new in vSphere VMware?
3 Jul 2009
09:30 – 16:00
Leeds Metropolitan University, James Graham Building, Jubilee Room, Headingley Campus, Leeds
FREE
YHMAN presents in association with C-Ways:
With an ever changing IT agenda, where IT Managers need to show real world projects to deliver against GREEN IT, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery and consolidation of both data centres, server and [...]

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ALP is delighted to announce that following lengthy negotiations with the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) and the dept. for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) they have agreed to award an additional £3m of capital funding to support a further phase of the very successful Learning Innovation Grant (LIG5) programme.
Chris Swingler, ALP’s Director of Business [...]

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The Higher Education Academy and JISC have teamed up to produce a set of online guides and interactive tutorials, designed to help learning and teaching professionals make best use of digital technologies in their practice.
The rapid development of information technology has made available a plethora of new resources for education. These educational tools can significantly [...]

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JISC Netskills are running a FREE event for senior IT staff, as part of the JISC Business and Community Engagement (BCE) programme. It will explore key challenges and the support available through JISC for IT services as they look to extend provision for their institution’s engagement with external partners.
The event takes place at Euston House, [...]

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The West Yorkshire Lifelong Learning Network (WYLLN) is pleased to invite you to attend two staff development events taking place in July 2009.
Vocational Learners: Supporting their Admission to Higher Education and Selective Courses within West Yorkshire
Wednesday 8th July 2009
Business School, University of Leeds
This half day event will provide an opportunity to hear first hand from [...]

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