JISC RSC YH Exchange News

Join Graham Attwell, Martin Weller (The Open University) and Rob Howe (University of Northampton), session facilitator, John Traxler, and other delegates in this year’s JISC online conference, Innovating e-Learning 2009 to debate the future of education on the 24th November.
As part of the pre-conference buzz, Martin Weller has produced a short video interviewing his [...]

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The Excellence Gateway has many resources to support CPD, including sections on:
CPD Requirements
Requirements for educators to maintain their professional status.
Using the Excellence Gateway to support CPD
How educators, departments and organisations can make use of Excellence Gateway tools and resources to support and develop their CPD programmes.
Programmes to support CPD
How participation in one or more programmes [...]

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Meet the JISC RSCs at the AOC Conference between 17-19th November:
The JISC Advance exhibition stand – find out how the newly created JISC Advance can support you. Representatives from the JISC RSCs and JISC services will be available at stand 40/43, as you enter the main exhibition hall, throughout the conference.
Celebrate the launch of a [...]

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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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A new organisation called JISC Advance launches this week which will bring together eight established JISC services as part of JISC’s ongoing strategy to deliver world-class support to colleges and universities.
Dr Malcolm Read, JISC Executive Secretary, said: “JISC Advance brings together a team of experienced professionals, many of whom we have worked with for many [...]

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The 9 English RSCs are pleased to announce that they have signed a pledge for BIS signaling their intent to play a role in bringing the vision for informal adult learning to life. The pledge is a commitment by organisations they will be important ambassadors and advocates for learning and a key driver for change [...]

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AccessApps is an initiative supported by the JISC Regional Support Centres and JISC TechDis. It consists of over 50 open source and freeware Windows applications, running from a USB stick.  AccessApps provides a range of solutions to support writing, reading and planning as well as sensory, cognitive and physical difficulties.
The developers now wish to receive feedback [...]

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Would you like the opportunity of attending the JISC RSC East Midlands e-fair for free?
 
It takes place on Tuesday 23rd June at the Walkers Stadium in Leicester, and we have managed to get 10 FREE places for learning providers in our region.
 
The event will feature:

a series of workshops (on topics such as e-assessment, VLEs, online [...]

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JISC RSC Scotland North & East were invited to Barcelona last month to pick up an accolade for AccessApps! The occasion was the annual conference hosted by the IMS Global Learning Consortium and AccessApps is a project which had caught the judges’ eye.
AccessApps is an initiative supported by the JISC Regional Support Centres and JISC [...]

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The JISC Regional Support Centre Scotland (North and East) team, developers of the popular Access Apps USB stick containing over 50 free assistive technology applications, has added more open source and freeware solutions specifically for teachers and learners.
EduApps extends the AccessApps philosophy of free portable software in your pocket to include bundles of applications specifically [...]

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