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The Higher Education Academy and JISC launch its Open Educational Resources programme, helping to drive open innovation across the UK.
This week’s announcement by David Lammy (Minister for Higher Education and IPR) to create an online innovation fund and the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP’s celebration of the Open University show the importance [...]

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A new task force to ensure our universities become the first choice across the world for on-line distance learning has been announced by Higher Education Minister, David Lammy.
The task force chaired by Lynne Brindley, the Chief Executive of the British Library will advise on a wider strategy to build on our past and present [...]

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A report published by the Higher Education Academy highlights the success of the e-Learning Benchmarking and Pathfinder programme, and looks to the future development of the work undertaken by 77 higher education institutions as part of the programme.
“The e-Learning Benchmarking and Pathfinder Programme 2005-08 – An overview report” outlines the key themes to emerge from [...]

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The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has  published ‘Enhancing learning and teaching through the use of technology – a revised approach to HEFCE’s strategy for e-learning’. This revised approach follows an independent review of the strategy and is designed to provide further support to higher education institutions as they develop their own e-learning [...]

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The HEFCE Annual Conference is being held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on 1-2 April 2009. In addition to providing a forum for heads of universities and colleges, and key partners, to meet and discuss major developments in higher education, it will introduce the new HEFCE Chief Executive, Sir Alan Langlands. The final address [...]

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HEFCE/Academy/JISC Open Educational Resources Programme: Call for Projects
The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Higher Education Academy (Academy) invites institutions, subject area consortia and individuals to submit funding proposals for projects to release existing learning resources under a suitable license for open use and repurposing. This grant funding call invites proposals in the following [...]

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Students, academics and higher education institutions are to benefit from the combined experience and knowledge of educators throughout the country. An innovative project will significantly increase access to educational resources across the higher education sector.
The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) has announced an initial £5.7 million of funding for pilot projects that will open up existing high-quality education [...]

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The HEFCE, on behalf of the UK funding bodies, has announced the new chair of JISC.
Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, has been appointed to succeed Professor Sir Ron Cooke as the new chair of JISC from 1 January 2009.
See:  http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/08/chair.aspx

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