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The Work-with-IT project is based at the University of Strathclyde and funded by JISC with an overall aim to gather up to date information on changing staff roles, relationships and associated skills brought about by the impact of the adoption of new technologies within UK FE and HE:

Are you currently using Web 2.0 technologies in an [...]

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The UK can only maintain its worldwide reputation for quality research, if researchers take advantage of the digital revolution, says JISC.
Today, JISC is launching a year-long campaign called ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’, to debate how digital technologies are changing not only what research we do, but how it can be carried out.
Professor [...]

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Emerging findings from a major three-year research study into the information-seeking behaviour of doctoral students have highlighted the need for far greater understanding of the generation born between 1982 and 1994 – commonly dubbed Generation Y.
Researchers of Tomorrow was commissioned by the British Library and JISC to establish a benchmark for research behaviour, against which [...]

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Keeping abreast of research in the Learning and Skills Sector
Friday 11 December 2009
9:30am – 4:35pm
Thistle Marble Arch Hotel, Bryanston Street, London W1H 7EH
This conference will count towards the 30 hour CPD requirement for all FE staff. It will be of interest to all those working in the Learning and Skills sector, particularly:

Practitioners, Managers
Tutors, [...]

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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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A nationally co-ordinated approach to technology in education allows learners and researchers to adopt new technologies faster, according to an international JISC study.
Led by JISC in the UK and SURF in the Netherlands, co-ordinated national initiatives and central funding structure in the two countries have meant that the benefits of Web 2.0 are felt right [...]

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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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The JISC invites tenders to conduct a review of existing research into how users place their trust in digital information resources in the Web environment and current approaches to presenting such resources in ways that engender trust. Information resources in this context means both formal (such as journal articles) and informal resources (such as blogs) [...]

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The National Grid Service is inviting people to a workshop to help determine the e-infrastructure requirements for UK participation in a series of major European research infrastructure projects over the next two decades.
The European strategy forum on research infrastructures (ESFRI) identified the projects as essential to maintaining Europe’s research competitiveness in the future.
The NGS would [...]

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New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better and different research through virtual research environments have just been released at http://www.youtube.com/user/JISCmedia
The videos feature projects from JISC’s virtual research environment (VRE) programme, which is trying to find ways to connect people and speed up research processes across disciplines. These include astronomy, physics, [...]

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