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Collaborative Tools for Teaching Workshop and Demonstration
10 December 2009
Devonshire House, University of Manchester
Hosted by the Access Grid Support Centre
There will be a demonstration workshop of Access Grid, which will include a hands-on session for participants to try out the technology. There will also be a session allocated for a discussion on how Access Grid [...]

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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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From New Zealand to Dubai, 145 delegates from 12 different countries came together to interact with a single speaker, Charlie Leadbeater at the opening keynote session of the JISC online e-learning conference.
The session broke all previous records for delegate numbers at a JISC online conference session, demonstrating both the appeal of the speaker, a leading [...]

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The British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC) holds a range of courses promoting subjects related to the use of moving image in learning, teaching and research.  Forthcoming events:
Copyright Clearance for Print, Broadcast and Multimedia Production
The essential one-day starter course for those needing to copy and use existing content in their new productions and services.
Next [...]

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With a £280m budget, the Grundtvig programme is a significant funder of adult education. It funds training opportunities for adult education organisations, staff and learners. Adult educators can be involved in structured courses, conferences and even job shadowing. Organisations can take part in exciting partnerships to share innovation and good practice with [...]

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Engagement with business and the community has gone on in FE and HE for some time, often under headings such as ‘outreach’, ‘knowledge transfer’ or ‘enterprise’ for example. However, this activity has usually been carried on separately from core administration and services. Relationships with external contacts are becoming increasingly important strategic priorities, so guidance on [...]

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There’s still time to book your place on the one-day JISC Netskills workshop ‘Project Management for the Education Sector’, a comprehensive introduction to Project Management, specifically designed for the education sector.
This workshop uses PRINCE 2 methodology to give you the confidence to understand the basic principles of project management, investigate and use project management tools [...]

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Two FREE workshops are on offer to further and higher education, organised by OSS Watch, the JISC funded open source software advisory service.
One workshop will examine open development as a part of open innovation; the other will address building an open development community around a software project. Both workshops to be held on December 7th, 2009, at The [...]

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Due to demand, additional dates for Spring 2010 have been added to the E-Guides eCPD training programme schedule:
Manchester:                 19 Jan, 10 Feb, 23 Feb 2010
Birmingham:                2 Feb, 16 Feb, 2 Mar 2010
York:                 [...]

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A call for papers has been issued for the 5th International Conference on e-Learning, being held at the Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia on the 12-13 July 2010. The call is open until 04 January 2010.
The conference committee welcomes contributions on a wide range of topics using a range of scholarly approaches including theoretical and [...]

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