JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Merry Christmas from the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber!
Our 2008 advent blog posts continue with interesting facts you may not know about the JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire & Humber…
Week 3: Excellence in Inclusivity
Visit our Excellence in Inclusivity website to see how JISC RSC YH-supported organisations are using assistive technology with their [...]

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Please note the following call for paper submission for a Special Issue of the ALT Journal (ALT-J).  Details are as follows:
Mobile and Contextual Learning
A special issue of ALT Journal, Research in Learning Technology
Mobile learning is rapidly growing from a set of research projects into worldwide deployment of services for classrooms, field trips, workplace training, tourism [...]

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The Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (Ofsted) has launched a new consultation document that proposes a more focused approach to inspection of the further education (FE) and skills system.
Under the new proposals, Ofsted would focus inspections on providers and issues which would have the greatest impact on improving outcomes for learners. [...]

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Latest Learning News

10 top tips on web 2.0
More and more organisations are considering web 2.0 technologies, or social media tools, to harness the wealth of informal learning that takes place amongst staff on a daily basis.
Click here for our top 10 tips for web 2.0

Induction – make a [...]

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Since LLUK site (http://www.lluk.org/ ) relaunched back in February, a lot of hard work was put into it to make sure the information you need from the LLUK and SVUK websites is as easy to find and share as possible.
In the past few weeks some new features have been added:
AddThis buttons
You’ll now [...]

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The Centre for Excellence in Leadership hosted its second Leading the Learner Voice Awards ceremony in London on Thursday 3 July 2008. More than 150 learners, guests and sector representatives gathered to celebrate the achievements made by individuals and organisations in the further education and skills sector in embedding the learner voice.
Over 80 [...]

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Next Generation Learning Awards 2009: Technology Excellence in FE & Skills
There are just a few weeks left for you to submit your entries for the Awards. To give more time for providers to get their entries in, the deadline has been extended to 31 July 2008.
These awards will reward all types of learning provider in [...]

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This Master Class will cover the wider context of projects and how they affect (and are affected by) the organisation’s ability to meet strategic objectives. Techniques for ensuring that the right projects are undertaken will be demonstrated. Maintaining a strategic and benefits-driven control over an institution’s portfolio of projects will feature strongly.
The roles and make-up [...]

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ALT-C 2008: Rethinking the digital divide
9-11 September 2008, Leeds, UK
Second call for papers and abstracts – deadline, 29 February 2008
Keynote speakers:
* David Cavallo, Chief Learning Architect for One Laptop per Child, and Head of the Future of Learning Research Group at MIT Media Lab;
* Dr Itiel Dror, Senior Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University [...]

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