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The US Congress has given the go-ahead for a new centre to explore ways advanced computer and communications technologies can improve learning.
The National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies will focus on "bringing education into the 21st century."
Supporters said classrooms have failed to keep up with technology innovations.
For the full BBC report, [...]

The Quality Improvement Agency’s (QIA) Excellence Gateway (EG), a complete online service for all those working in FE & Skills in England, has been going from strength to strength and helping colleges and providers in their pursuit of excellence, innovation and improvement.
EG gives everyone working in the further education system the opportunity to improve their [...]

Following the introduction of government reforms in 2007, learning providers that deliver further education provision through a contract or funding agreement with the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) are required to ensure that all their trainers, tutors and teachers:

register as members of the Institute for Learning (IfL) by 30 September 2008
undertake at least 30 hours’ [...]

The JISC e-Learning Programme will be running its third international Online Conference Innovating e-Learning 2008 between 4th – 7th November. The theme for this year’s event is Learning in a Digital Age - Are we prepared?
Theme 1: Embracing the future now asks us to assess how prepared we really are for models of learning and [...]

Edexcel Policy Watch is a service that aims to provide anyone with an interest in education and skills with regular, easy to read and simple summaries of education developments.
If you would like further information, would like to be removed from, or would like anyone added to this mailing list at any point, simply send an [...]

Learning Lab Showcase Event: a journey through the world of mobile and emergent learning technologies
Date: Wednesday 17th September 2008, 2.00-6.30pm
Venue: Learning Lab, Telford Campus, University of Wolverhampton, Priorslee, Telford. TF2 9NT.
The Learning Lab is pleased to introduce its first Showcase Event, designed to offer delegates an insight into current and emergent learning technologies and how [...]

The programme is delivered by NIACE on behalf of the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA) as part of the Teaching and Learning Programme.
E-Guides is an introduction for post-16 practitioners to e-learning and using technology effectively in teaching and learning. The E-Guides programme aims to increase the use of e-learning through developing the skills and knowledge of [...]

E-Guides Forum (Yorkshire & Humber)
Thursday 9th October 2008
AIDC, Halifax
10:00 - 15:00
The E-Guide Forum is a new way for E-Guides in Yorkshire & Humber to receive support, share good practice and help bring e-learning forward in their organisations.
The forum will be a mix of online discussion and face to face meetings.
Online discussion takes place on the [...]

The QIA Excellence Gateway now has a dedicated area for all e-learning case studies produced by the JISC Regional Support Centres across England.
You can access it from the link on the home page, e-learning case studies or simply go to
http://excellence.qia.org.uk/casestudies
It features all of the e-learning case studies that have been published to date which have [...]

Emerging Issues
The FE Workforce Reforms: One Year On
Friday 26 September 2008
10:30am - 3:30pm
Scarman House, University of Warwick,
Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL
Keynote Speaker: Professor Denis Gleeson, Institute of Education, University of Warwick
Update from the Institute for Learning: Dr Jean Kelly
Workshops:
WMCETT
Moving on with the Minimum Core
LONCETT
Teaching in a Prison Context
HUDCETT
Costs, benefits and solutions of using a [...]