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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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As part of its HEFCE funded Enhancing Learning through Technology (ELT) programme, Higher Education Institutions and Further Education Colleges delivering higher education based in England are invited to submit an expression of interest to run a seminar in one or more of three areas:

Assessment and feedback
Employability/employee learning – including work-related learning
Professional development in areas such [...]

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The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Hull City Council ACL: Facebook your learners for engagement and retention
Theresa Rowland at HUll ACL directly supports her learners via the ‘Instant Chat’ facility on Facebook. This case study highlights the successes of her method.
Links to examples of good practice in our [...]

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This feature on Twitter is taken from the latest edition of our RSC Newsletter, which will reach key contacts shortly.
It seems that everyone is on Twitter these days. From Barack Obama to Jonathan Ross, the idea of posting comments up to 140 characters in length for anyone to read on the internet is big [...]

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The Excellence Gateway provides a free professional networking facility for its registered users. This facility allows you to find people on the Excellence Gateway who have similar interests, or a similar job role, to you so you can network with them to share best practice, ideas and queries. It is a highly intuitive facility and, [...]

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The latest case study from our region has gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Leeds City College: The e-staff development approach
In Leeds City College Thomas Danby Campus, staff development has become e-staff development – instead of being an added option, e-learning is central to the entire approach to continuing professional development (CPD). As well as offering [...]

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e-skills UK recently welcomed the first teachers into the e-skills Staffroom, an online resource providing an innovative way for teachers to plan and deliver ICT lessons and the computer clubs CC4G (connect, create, go).
e-skills Staffroom provides teaching resources and learning content, mapped to the National Curriculum and the Diploma in IT. Teachers and students are [...]

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The latest case studies from our region have gone live on the Excellence Gateway!
Rotherham ACL: Loaning equipment for learning in the community
Rotherham ACL has developed an equipment loan scheme with their learning providers, as a result of funding from NIACE. This has had a major impact on learners in the community, making more equipment available [...]

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The Dept for Business, Innovation and Skills supported by Becta is looking for your views.
They have set up a site on ning for policy makers, FE professionals and providers to discuss the implications and potential of new technologies and media to enrich FE.  They have put together some simple statements on where things could be heading towards 2020 and how that compares with [...]

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The JISC Learner Experiences of e-Learning programme has produced a series of guides as a result of their research into learners’ experiences.
Details of Responding to Learners: a guide for institutional managers in further education and the other guides are now available to download from the website which has recorded outputs from the programme.  This guide will [...]

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