Malcolm Bodley & Maryse Fisher Jisc Regional Support Centre

RSC Eastern update

Learning Resources Managers Forum

10:00 Arrival

10:30 Welcome, Julia Lale, Chair

10:40 Round the region

11:55 Break

12:10 Matthew Wheeler, CILIP

12:30 Jisc RSC Eastern update

12:40 Show & Tell – Emma Furness, Alison Baker, Jan Church

13:00 Lunch

13:30 Andrew Bevan, Edina & Neil Fraser, Scran

15:00 Close

ACER, St Ives, Cambs, 22nd November 2013

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JiscJisc is now a registered charity and champion

the use of

digital technologies in UK education and research

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What’s happening in the Region?

 

»Funding»Forums »Events»News & Resources

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Funding

33 Resource and Development Projects across the UK – 130 partners

Project Details - http://bit.ly/17bK8QR

Resources from the programme are available on Jorum using the search tag ‘FEskills’

www.jorum.ac.uk

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Further Education and Skills: Development and Resources Programme 2012 –2013

Future Funding

A call inviting bids totalling £1 million funding – deadline 6th December 2013.

Bids will be related to:

• Enhancing the learner experience

• Improving organisational effectiveness

• Repurposing and updating existing learning resources

FE & Skills Innovations Projects funding.

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Regional F2F Events & Forums

»Technology for Inspection 04/12/13

»Assessing Impact for your Services (Part 2) 10/12/13

»Technical Managers Forum 05/02/14

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http://bit.ly/rsce-events

National Events F2F & Online

Visit our National UK Site for

National Events:

http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/

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Latest News

In these short videos, RSC Eastern Technical Advisor, Thomas Rochford, examines the latest user interfaces, demonstrating the new Leapmotion and Sandstrom touchpad devices.

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Thomas’s Tech Review

bit.ly/thomastechreview1

Latest NewsRSCs welcome e-learning case studies

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Jisc RSCs now host the e-learning case studies which used to be held on the Excellence Gateway.

With nearly 300 e-learning case studies available, providers can find inspiration for a new e-learning project, or discover how to use technology to improve efficiency.

The latest case study, from West Suffolk College, looks at how iPads, tablets and Apple TV have revolutionised learning at the college.

bit.ly/wsccasestudy

Latest NewsRSCs customer satisfaction survey

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Jisc conducts a regular Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS) across all 12 Regional Support Centres.

98% of those who responded had made use of RSC support and communications over the previous 12 months, and 91 per cent said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the support they received.

bit.ly/jiscimpact

New Resources

Three online maths courses, using videos, games and quizzes, have been developed to help adults improve their everyday maths skills, manage their money and support their children.

New online maths courses for adult learners

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bit.ly/mathscourses

New Resources

An online resource to support e-learning for vocational, education and training.  Freely available resources for the use of all learners, apprentices, employers and teachers.

Travel and tourism, retail, sports therapy, hospitality, beauty, customer service.

Free resources for hairdressing, childcare, and more

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www.education-net.org/

New Resources

LAGAT Training & Recruitment have shared their FE & Skills Programme Final Project Report.

To achieve their aims they moved away from paper-based resources to:

• Develop a Virtual Learning Library (VLL) of resources specific to the occupational areas in which we deliver

• Implement and use Tablets to improve efficiency in staff delivery

• Develop an electronic web based induction program

Case study – moving to mobile devices in the workplace

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www.eeles643.co.uk/RSC/

New Resources

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Updated Jorum website

Looking for free teaching and learning resources? Refine or filter your search like you would on a shopping site. You can filter for:•Everything for a particular community (e.g. HE or FE);•Discipline •By author, publisher;•By what you are allowed to do with the resource (i.e. by licence).

www.jorum.ac.uk

New Resources

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130,000 free images, videos and audio resourcesJisc is now offering further education (FE) providers’ free subscription to Jisc MediaHub. It enables direct access to over 130,000 images, films and audio files, licensed for educational use.

bit.ly/mediahubfree

Thank you!

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