JISC RSC YH Exchange News

As part of its HEFCE funded Enhancing Learning through Technology (ELT) programme, Higher Education Institutions and Further Education Colleges delivering higher education based in England are invited to submit an expression of interest to run a seminar in one or more of three areas:

Assessment and feedback
Employability/employee learning – including work-related learning
Professional development in areas such [...]

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Learning through Assessment
29 September 2009
University of York
A UK Centre for Bioscience event
It is recognised that the type of assessment that students undergo is a powerful influence on how they learn. However, in the concerted effort to ensure that assessments are rigorous, reliable, cheat-proof and able to cope with ever-increasing student numbers it can be difficult [...]

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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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The Higher Education Academy and JISC have teamed up to produce a set of online guides and interactive tutorials, designed to help learning and teaching professionals make best use of digital technologies in their practice.
The rapid development of information technology has made available a plethora of new resources for education. These educational tools can significantly [...]

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Supporting Progression and Pedagogy: the role of technology in enhancing student retention
Friday 10 July, 2009, The Lakeside Centre, Aston Business School Conference Centre, Aston University, Birmingham
The Higher Education Academy and JISC are delighted to be able to offer a workshop to highlight the use of technology to support students at key times in their [...]

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The HE Academy have published their HE in FE Directory, which allows online searching for information and contact details under the following categories:

qualifications and funding bodies
information, support and membership bodies
awarding and validating bodies
regional bodies (including the RSCs)
HE coordinators and managers in FE colleges

Directory homepage:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/institutions/heinfe/directory

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HE in FE: Identifying and Preventing Plagiarism
A Workshop for STEM Practitioners in Further Education Colleges
Monday June 1st 2009, Wakefield College, West Yorkshire
This free workshop from the Higher Education Academy, led by Gill Rowell from PlagiarismAdvice.org, aims to provide Higher Education practitioners working in Further Education Colleges who are delivering across the Science, Technology, Engineering and [...]

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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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A suite of new learning resources is now available online thanks to JISC TechDis, courtesy of the successful JISC/ Higher Education Academy Collaboration initiative. Each module shows how resources and methods can be adapted with technology, to deliver teaching more inclusively to the widest possible audience.
The modules in the JISC TechDis ‘Teaching Inclusively Using Technology’ [...]

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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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