JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Excellence in e-Learning Forum
10 Feb 2010
10:00 – 16:00
Leeds City College, Park Lane Campus, Leeds, West Yorkshire
The Excellence in e-Learning forum meetings are a means of updating the FE & Skills sector on regional and national developments in e-learning.
The forum meets three times a year and provides the opportunity for discussing and sharing ideas and developments [...]

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Generator Workshop
11 Jan 2010
10:00 – 16:00
University of Leeds, West Yorkshire
During the day we aim to develop your confidence when using Generator plus a thorough understanding of its functionality and application.
Our objective will be to equip you with the knowledge to use Generator effectively, developing an understanding of the application of Generator to your technology planning [...]

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Learning Technologist Forum
2 Nov 2009
09.30 (tea and coffee for 10.00 start) – 15.00
Kirklees College, Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
• Do you use technology to develop learning resources?
• Do you assist lecturers to develop teaching and learning technologies?
• Do you collaborate with staff to research, develop, evaluate and apply innovative learning technologies that are pedagogically driven?
• Does learning [...]

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Extreme Makeover: Transforming the face of your Library Service
26 Oct 2009
10:00 – 16:00
The Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University
The modern library lies at the heart of learning and is increasingly challenged with exploring new ways to engage learners and market resources. Issues of accessibility, learner trends and keeping abreast of the latest developments in resources [...]

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Appsense – An Introduction to Virtual Desktops
31 Jul 2009
11:00 – 12:00
FREE Online Event
Due to its low cost approach to management and delivery of applications to users, as well as the ability to provide 24 hour access to applications regardless of their location, Citrix XenApp is proven as an ideal solution for education faculties by uplifting [...]

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Internet Threat Protection
17 Jul 2009
11:00 – 12:00
FREE Online Event
Don’t miss this free online event examining internet threat protection.
The workshop will examine three areas:
Today’s Security Issues
Conficker, data loss, network security
Network Access Control
Who comes onto your network and how? What do they bring with them and where do they go?
Encryption
Is it relevant to you? Laptops and USB’s [...]

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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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Photos from the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber e-Learning Conference 2009 have now been published!  There’s lots of nice shots of people trying things out – a good summary of the day!
Visit our Flickr photo site at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jiscrscyh
The Conference was a great success.  Thanks to all those who posted their Reflections on our [...]

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Last year the JISC RSC YH ran a series of courses based around the theme of ‘Taming the Mac’. These courses took delegates from the basics of the operating system interface, through customisation to more advanced topics such as integration with Microsoft Active Directory.
 
JISC RSC YH subsidised these courses to provide free delegate places for [...]

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The dust is settling on the JISC RSC YH e-Learning Conference 2009, which took place at York Racecourse yesterday.  Thanks to everyone who made the day such a success!
Delegates reported having a very useful and inspiring day.  The event began with an introduction from Sal Cooke, of JISC TechDis, and then the keynote session from [...]

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