JISC RSC YH Exchange News

JISC Collections would like to invite you to participate in a survey of everyone involved in the provision of learning materials and their use in Further Education colleges in the UK.
JISC Collections has commissioned a team of consultants to undertake work on how e-books might best be provided to the FE sector and this survey [...]

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The New York Times has reported that as of 24/09/09, the Settlement was officially withdrawn from the New York court where it was being decided.
Whilst the settlement may be withdrawn from the time being, issues that it has raised may be reinvigorated in the future, therefore JISC continues to be very keen to gather views [...]

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What do we mean by e-business, and why is it relevant to the strategic management of universities and colleges?
JISC’s first ever e-book ‘The e-Revolution and Post-Compulsory Education: Using e-Business Models to deliver Quality Education’, published online earlier this year, is now being updated with seven fresh articles on how new and emerging technology is changing [...]

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The e-books for FE project provides 2990 e-book titles free of charge to FE colleges under unlimited simultaneous access.
This means all students have access to a digital library 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The e-books within the collection include BTEC textbooks, study guides, through to textbooks endorsed by the Scottish Qualifications bodies. [...]

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JISC has funded an ‘e-books for Further Education (FE)’ project to make over 3000 e-books freely available to every college and sixth form in the UK.
Over the next five years, the project, which also received funding from the Learning Skills Council (LSC), will enable all students in FE in the UK to access online course [...]

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