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Learning providers have always had a duty of care for their learners at the heart of their policies and practice. Now that duty of care needs to be extended to the safe use of technology. Organisations have a key role in helping learners to develop the skills they need to keep themselves safe, secure and [...]

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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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Budding historians are set to benefit from a new online project which will revolutionise the way we search for historical sources on the internet, thanks to a £198,977 cash boost from JISC.
The ‘Connected Histories’ project, which is a partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the Institute of Historical Research, and King’s College London, will create [...]

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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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For those new to writing and developing strategy, a new JISC briefcase of resources is launched today to support people through the increasing scale of challenges facing learning providers.
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/strategy
The ‘strategy infokit’ produced by the JISC-funded advisory service JISC InfoNet covers all aspects of the strategy process: from articulating your institution’s vision and the characteristics of [...]

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JISC Collections are working with JISC and EDINA to review the provision of digital image, film and sound content to their members.
The content they have purchased / licensed is currently within 4 discreet collections:
1. Film & Sound Online – http://www.filmandsound.ac.uk
2. Education Image Gallery – http://edina.ac.uk/eig
3. NewsFilm Online – http://www.nfo.ac.uk
4. Digital Images for Education – http://imagesforeducation.org.uk
They [...]

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JANET(UK) is pleased to announce the launch of the new JANET Certificate Service.
The service will offer a range of new features, through a simple online interface. This will enable the automated processing of certificate requests, for all .ac.uk and gov.uk domains, along with the ability to monitor and manage new certificates that are issued. This [...]

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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 winners of the Association of Colleges Beacon Awards 2009/10 were announced at the AoC Annual Conference in Birmingham this week and our region was successful in many categories!
Regional winners were:

Award for Excellence in the Use of Technology – Wakefield College
Award for College Engagement with Employers – North Lindsey College
Award for Equality and Diversity – [...]

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The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) has announced the call for papers for a Special Issue of the ALT Journal – “The Transformational Impact of Learning Technology”.
The guest editors for this issue will be:
* John Bourne (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Professor of Technology Entrepreneurship at [...]

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