JISC RSC YH Exchange News

The LSC has made capital funding available during 2009/10 for both new and existing UK online centres.  The proposal focuses only on capital equipment needed, to support delivery of the entitlement to Digital Life Skills in UK online centres; supporting the most vulnerable people in society.
The funding will be targeted to support activity in two [...]

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A report published by the university think-tank million+ confirms the value of funding projects to advance the innovative application of digital technologies in UK universities.
The application of technology to enhance learning and wider university activities has been a source of interest not only to universities, their staff and the funding councils but also to Ministers [...]

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Following feedback from some colleges and the proposed marking panel, there is concern about the proximity of other bidding processes from other agencies, together with the fact that the last week of October is half term for most colleges. JISC TechDis does not wish to detract from the importance of [...]

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The VRE Programme management is happy to announce a new round of funding for smaller Rapid Innovation projects, focussing on short term development of tools and applications related to the VRE field.
There will be £600,000 available for around 8-15 projects of £20,000-£75,000 each.
The emphasis of these projects will be to solve some actual itches that [...]

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Phase 2 of the Technology Exemplar Network is now open for applications for participating providers.
16 exemplars are already appointed for the network  - of which one is from our region, Grimsby Institute of Further and Higher Education - and Becta is now seeking applications from interested providers to join the network as participating providers. Last year [...]

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JISC Collections invites proposals to explore the metrics that could be used for the redistribution of costs between all the libraries participating in bloc purchase and to create a model that demonstrates the cost benefits of participating in a bloc purchase.  In this context a ‘bloc’ could be all of the [...]

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ALP is delighted to announce the launch of a new £1m e-learning Content Creation (ECC) pilot programme for providers in the work based learning sector to test how high quality e-learning content could be pump-primed to improve the cost effectiveness of delivery. The full prospectus, application form and supporting documents are [...]

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Creative music master classes for people out of work or education, learning adventures for isolated older people and access to digital technologies in a Tyneside Cinema are all on offer thanks to a significant investment in ‘learning for pleasure’ announced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS).
The £20 million Transformation Fund, launched by [...]

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JISC TechDis has been notified by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC England) that a further £1,000,000 of capital funding to improve the use and take-up of ILT has been granted for the Independent Specialist Colleges sector for the new academic year (O9/10).
As in previous years JISC TechDis will be administering the distribution of this [...]

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The JISC invites tenders to conduct a review of Using Cloud Computing for Research.
The aims of the review are:

To document the use cases for cloud computing in research;
To provide advice and guidance on the governance, legal and economic issues around using cloud computing for research;
To make recommendations to the JISC on further useful work that [...]

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