RSC YH Exchange

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 [...]

Publishers Lookup UK is a website created by JISC TechDis and the Publishers Association.
Its purpose is to help users to identify the key publisher contact when they need to obtain accessible documents for disabled learners. There is also some guidance on what users may expect to get from publishers.
The aims of the site are:

to make [...]

Tony Hirst (OU) has created a google custom search to look for open courseware and open educational resources. You can access the search page from
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=009190243792682903990%3Ae40rcqv1bbo
The list of sources, almost 250 in total, is here
http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2008/06/university-learning-ocw-oer-free.html.
It is mainly for HE but suitable for FE and schools aswell.

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Visit this new EU website for teachers and technology. As well as giving guides and information about subjects such as blogs and wikis, there are interesting features in the ‘current issues’ section on:

cyberbullying
searching the internet
privacy and personal safety

There is also a jargon buster and various other resources, including facts and figures answering questions [...]

Has your institution signed up for the British Library’s online resources? They are offering two major digital resources: Archival Sound Recordings and 19th Century Newspapers. Funded by the JISC, licenses are available for free to UK higher and further education.
Archival Sound Recordings provides access to music, spoken word and environmental sounds from the British [...]

Please note that the research report for the project on ‘Learning from digital natives: Integrating formal and informal learning ‘ (Trinder et al) is now available on the Higher Education Academy website.
For a copy please see:
www.heacademy.ac.uk/projects/detail/projectfinder/projects/pf2969lr

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University College London is to be the first European university to distribute free lecture material through iTunes.
The service goes live today and will begin with material on neuroscience, the university’s "lunch time lectures" and an audio news round-up.
For full details, visit: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7431918.stm

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Proquest have just announced three additional services which are available through the UK federation.

The Annual Register: A Record of World Events
The Annual Register is a year-by-year record of British and world events, published annually since 1758. As well as being a record of events, the Annual Register was originally conceived as a miscellany, reproducing state [...]

LEARNING EXCELLENCE: MAKING IT HAPPEN
JISC RSC YH e-Learning Conference 2008
Tuesday 10th June 2008 - University of Bradford
Bookings have now opened for the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber e-Learning Conference 2008, “Learning Excellence: Making It Happen”.
Current key issues in teaching and learning will be addressed and various new tools and technologies will be [...]

CALL FOR PAPERS: OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
The eLearning Papers looks for articles on Open Educational Resources (OER) and their use in education at all levels, taking into account the aspects of global development and Web 2.0. The deadline for article submission is 30 June 2008.
Read more here http://www.elearningpapers.eu/index.php?page=fix&id=10
LOOKING FOR LEARNING 2.0 PROJECTS
IPTS is conducting a research [...]