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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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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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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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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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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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The latest JISC Inform is now available in an online version, Inform Plus, showcasing extra content, an interactive timeline, podcasts and videos as well as the usual spread of news from across JISC’s work.
This autumn edition looks at how digital technologies are helping learning providers reach out locally as well as internationally.  There is also [...]

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The Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies has announced the final Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 – created from the contributions of 278 learning professionals worldwide.
Topping the list is Twitter, followed by Delicious and YouTube.
Jane Hart, who compiled the list, said:
“I think this year’s list, once again, is a great demonstration of how learning [...]

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There’s still time to book your place on the one-day JISC Netskills workshop ‘Project Management for the Education Sector’, a comprehensive introduction to Project Management, specifically designed for the education sector.
This workshop uses PRINCE 2 methodology to give you the confidence to understand the basic principles of project management, investigate and use project management tools [...]

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The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) and JISC TechDis will be holding a national one day conference in Nottingham on 9 February 2010 for any staff whose work and role affects learners and learning:
Rewiring Inclusion: Strategies, Tools and Techniques to promote barrier-free learning
If you or your organisation has good practice to share in the inclusive [...]

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