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Excellence in e-Learning Forum
10 Feb 2010
10:00 – 16:00
Leeds City College, Park Lane Campus, Leeds, West Yorkshire
The Excellence in e-Learning forum meetings are a means of updating the FE & Skills sector on regional and national developments in e-learning.
The forum meets three times a year and provides the opportunity for discussing and sharing ideas and developments [...]

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The new Sustainability Online Resource and Toolkit for Education (SORTED) is the one-stop-shop for sustainability issues in further and higher education. Packed with a wide range of resources, SORTED has a wealth of useful tools to help you understand what sustainability means to the sector.
Covering all subject areas including carbon reduction, alternative energy, sustainable procurement [...]

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The JISC invites institutions to submit funding proposals for projects to explore aspects of Green ICT in higher and further education in the UK as outlined below:
Study of Ownership and Responsibility for Energy Costs
This project will investigate the ways in which costs of the energy use associated with ICT are dealt with in universities and [...]

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Spaces are left at this free event:
Implementing Green IT – Cutting ICT-related Costs and Carbon
Monday 24th August 2009
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Topics to be addressed by speakers from Edinburgh Napier University, Norwich City College, SusteIT and others include:
• Identifying cost-effective and easily achieved  improvement opportunities
• Persuading managers and colleagues that Green IT  is feasible and worthwhile
• How automatic powerdown [...]

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The ICT Energy and Carbon Footprinting Tool has been updated (August 2009) to provide a more user-friendly way to help estimate the energy and carbon footprint of an institution.  At its simplest users need only input the number of ICT devices.  The tool is free to use, but a condition of use is that results [...]

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How green is IT? A new tool from JISC is helping universities and colleges calculate just how eco-friendly they are, by estimating the carbon footprint left by their computers.
Institutions can work out their carbon emissions by inputting information
about the numbers of computing devices into the SUSTE-IT footprinting tool.
The tool then estimates the overall amount of electricity used, [...]

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International case studies reveal innovative strategies for financing digital resources in the non-profit sector
Tens of millions of dollars, pounds and euros are invested each year by government agencies and private foundations to develop and support digital resources in the not-for–profit sector.
As institutional budgets tighten, will these digital resources be able to survive and thrive?  A new study, released today [...]

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Learning Providers can take advantage of a government scheme that provides an interest-free loan for energy saving projects.  Providers keep the savings made from the project for further reinvestment and repay the loan at the end of the scheme.
Budget 2009 announced over £51.5m will be available for interest free loans. The loans will be repayable [...]

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The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and JISC are running a FREE workshop exploring Business modelling/ Sustainability challenges and solutions for the long-term sustainability of grant-funded digital resources.
These workshops also offer delegates the opportunity to make the most out of their collections and archives using a range of free tools and digital strategies created by the [...]

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The free Ithaka/Strategic Content Alliance joint-workshop takes place on Wednesday 25 March 2009, led by Ithaka’s president, Kevin Guthrie.
The workshop will explore Ithaka’s recent project Case Studies in Sustainability, which explores the wide range of sustainability strategies that leaders of digital projects are employing today through a series of eleven in-depth case studies drawn from [...]

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