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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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The JISC invites proposals to develop a range of activities and tools aimed at improving business modelling and sustainability planning in the public and not-for-profit sectors for practitioners and policy-makers in the development of sustainable digital content.
The deadline for proposals is 12 noon UK time on 11 January 2010. The work should start on, [...]

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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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Universities and colleges need to work together in order to prepare for a low carbon future in which they generate, as well as consume energy. This is the message from a new report from JISC TechWatch, the JISC service that anticipates how technology developments are likely to impact on the future of higher and further [...]

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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 UK is at risk of losing its world-leading reputation for education unless it continues to invest in digital technologies to meet the ever-changing needs of modern learners, researchers and the academic community, says JISC in its three-year strategy which launches today.
The strategy outlines a vision of the future whereby a robust technological infrastructure is [...]

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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 Work-with-IT project is based at the University of Strathclyde and funded by JISC with an overall aim to gather up to date information on changing staff roles, relationships and associated skills brought about by the impact of the adoption of new technologies within UK FE and HE:

Are you currently using Web 2.0 technologies in an [...]

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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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