JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Assessment and Feedback Workshop
Higher Education Academy, York
1 April 2009
(There is no charge for attending this event)
This workshop will look at general overarching issues in assessment. It will look at change as a process with examples from institutions of how change in assessment has become embedded in the curriculum in institutional practice.
There will be an opportunity [...]

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National Teaching Fellowship Scheme One-day Workshop for Eligible FE Colleges
Date: 21st January 2009
Location: York
The Higher Education Academy is holding a one-day workshop to engage eligible colleges and the FE sector with the process of nominating National Teaching Fellows.
Under the individual strand of the scheme, 50 awards of 10,000 pounds are made to staff to be [...]

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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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http://www.tasi.ac.uk/training/tutorials/imagesearching is a new, free-to- use online tutorial to assist staff and students within the education sphere in locating images for use in both teaching and learning.
The emphasis of the tutorial is on finding copyright cleared images which are available free; facilitating quick, hassle-free access to a vast range of online photographs and other visual [...]

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The STEM Subject Centre HE in FE Teaching Award provides an opportunity for lecturers in Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics delivering Higher Nationals, Foundation Degrees and other undergraduate programmes in further education colleges to receive national recognition for their outstanding learning and teaching practices, or work in some other way that enhances the student learning [...]

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The Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences (ICS) is pleased to announce the Subject Development Fund for 2008/9.
£35,000 has been allocated to support small development projects (maximum available per project £3,500) within the ICS community. Projects should aim to bring into wider use exemplary techniques, methods or materials already developed and [...]

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