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On the second advent week, my JISC Regional Support Centre brought to me….
…rewards that recognise regional success!
Week 2
Technical Award
For an individual or team who work in collaboration with teaching staff to facilitate learning. This person or team will resolve technical issues to enable solutions for learners.
Enabling Resources Award
This is for the individual or team who [...]

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The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has produced a new plain English Guide to Data Protection to provide businesses and organisations with practical advice about the Data Protection Act and dispel myths. The guide will help organisations safeguard personal data and comply with the law. The guide takes a straight-forward look at the principles of the [...]

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On the first advent week, my JISC Regional Support Centre brought to me….
…rewards that recognise regional success!
Our new Evolution Awards scheme is your chance to put forward a colleague that you think deserves recognition for their work in promoting learning through technology.
Each week before Christmas, we will feature two of the award categories – who [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance is hosting a workshop introducing simple and inexpensive Audience Analysis techniques. This aims to improve your knowledge and understanding about how to measure and demonstrate the impact of you collection or website beyond a simple numeric value i.e. number of hits. The workshop offers delegates the opportunity to make the most [...]

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The UK can only maintain its worldwide reputation for quality research, if researchers take advantage of the digital revolution, says JISC.
Today, JISC is launching a year-long campaign called ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’, to debate how digital technologies are changing not only what research we do, but how it can be carried out.
Professor [...]

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Emerging findings from a major three-year research study into the information-seeking behaviour of doctoral students have highlighted the need for far greater understanding of the generation born between 1982 and 1994 – commonly dubbed Generation Y.
Researchers of Tomorrow was commissioned by the British Library and JISC to establish a benchmark for research behaviour, against which [...]

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The e-Books for FE project has made an excellent start with 341 colleges signing up to access the 3,000 e-books currently available. In view of this success, JISC has provided funding for JISC Collections to procure additional e-textbooks to extend the range of subjects and levels covered in the collection. As with the main collection, [...]

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Erica’s students text messages in class. James lets his learners play video games. Sophie’s learners are chatting on Facebook.
And the result?
Erica receives instant feedback from students. James’s learners with disabilities have improved co-ordination. Sophie knows when her learners are struggling with coursework.
Do you know someone using technology to make an impact [...]

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JISC Collections would like to invite you to participate in a survey of everyone involved in the provision of learning materials and their use in Further Education colleges in the UK.
JISC Collections has commissioned a team of consultants to undertake work on how e-books might best be provided to the FE sector and this survey [...]

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Figures showing everyday use of a university library are the unlikely stars of a JISC-funded competition showcasing innovative approaches to presenting library data.
The winning entrant, an undergraduate computer scientist, created an imaginative ‘book galaxy’ showing books as stars in the galaxy of library resources accessed by University of Huddersfield students and staff.
Explore the galaxy at [...]

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