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• JISC ITT: Synthesis of Outcomes from and Benefits of Digitised Resources

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 479
  JISC invites tenders to undertake a synthesis study to collate evidence relating to the development and use of digitised resources, articulating both the benefits of such resources and the broader outcomes arising from their creation.  The study should be primarily considered in the context of the impact on HE and ...
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• JISC Legal Unveil New Website

  
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  JISC Legal have recently upgraded their website to make accessing their guidance more straightforward, helping you to avoid legal barriers to the development and use of ICT in colleges and universities.An accompanying video  points out some of the new features which aim to make your life easier in getting quickly ...
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• JISC Receives International Award for FAM.

  
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  On November 6th JISC received an international award for its work in federated access management (FAM) in the UK at the Educause conference in Denver. The catalyst award is intended to recognize technology innovation and initiatives that provide groundbreaking solutions to major challenges in higher education, or ...
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• Dulce et Decorum Est (Virtually)

  
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  The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University have collaborated on an exciting new project in the 3D virtual world Second Life to simulate areas of the Western Front 1914-18. The team believes this is the first time anything of its type has been done on Second ...
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• Siegfried Sassoon Collection Launches Online

  
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    JISC and Oxford University are marking this year’s Armistice by launching the first ever online collection of the manuscripts of Siegfried Sassoon, focusing on his war poetry.This is the first time these have gone online and they present a comprehensive collection of his war poetry, reassembled from ...
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• Introducing XPERT the Xerte Public E-Learning Repository

  
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      To begin at the beginning, as someone once said…. Xerte is a suite of tools designed (at the University of Nottingham)to allow you to rapidly create online learning objects. Without writing any fancy code you can use Xerte to integrate text, graphics, animations, sounds and video, create simple ...
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• JISC Website Survey 09

  
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  Over the course of this year the JISC has made extensive changes to its website and would now like to hear your views on those changes. The online survey can be completed in 10 minutes and should you do that you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win a £30 Amazon voucher. Click here to go straight to the survey ...
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• Thoughts on JISCPress

  
  Stephen's Web ~ OLDaily — Authority: 548
  More on WriteToReply , which I mentioned here last week (it turns out that Eduserv will be covering hosting costs for the project). Tony Hirst describes in some detail how it works and what it is supposed to do in the context of the (wider? renamed?) JISCPress. Tony Hirst, OUseful Info, November 9, 2009 [Tags: ...
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• JISC CETIS Conference

  
  e4innovation.com — Authority: 106
  This coming week, it’s the JISC’s 6th CETIS conference. Entitled “A brave new world?’, the programme for the event is here . Keynotes by Chris Cobb, Oleg Liber and the technology critic Bill Thompson . We have set up a cloudscape for the conference with clouds for each of the session, so if you are going ...
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• Wellcome Film officially launched

  
  Wellcome Library — Authority: 423
  Readers of this blog, subscribers to our Wellcome Film YouTube channel , and those who regularly use our film collection will know that digital video has been available online for several months now, with more titles added on a regular basis as the Wellcome Film project moves forward. This week we took a moment ...
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• A conference with a difference

  
  e-Learning Stuff — Authority: 121
  Those of you who know me will know that I quite like online conferences and have participated in a fair few over the years. JISC are running another of their innovating e-learning conferences this November. The JISC Online e-Learning Conference 2009 takes place between the 24 and 27th November. Innovating ...
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• Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk (Book Review)

  
  backpass.org — Authority: 98
  I first encountered Gary Vaynerchuk at FOWA Miami a couple of years ago.  I’d never heard of him nor his video blog but the Carsonified guys were (and remain) big fans of his so I was interested to see his talk.  As it turned out I only lasted a few minutes as his OTT personality and presenting style put me ...
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• Finding OERs

  
  TALL blog — Authority: 448
  One of the biggest challenge for OERs is getting used.  Despite many large scale projects I suspect most would say that uptake is relatively disappointing. I am sure the new JISC funded OER projects won’t be satisfied with only making everything available in JORUM – but it will be interesting to see what you ...
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• The problem with educational metadata

  
  TALL blog — Authority: 448
  Continuing to think around the information to provide around our OpenSpires content it is reminding me how problematic educational metadata is.  It seems obvious that learning objects or OERs should be discoverable by metadata describing things such as, subject and educational level and it is arguably desirable ...
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• SCONUL and JISC Announce New Partnership

  
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  JISC and SCONUL (the Society of College, National and University Libraries) have recently announced a new 3 year partnership agreement to bring together the knowledge and expertise of the two organisations. A number of themes will be explored, including: The changing library systems landscape Policy and ...
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• Equality and Diversity: promoting good practice in library work

  
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    CILIP in Scotland is organising a one day conference aimed at library staff wishing to learn more about the equalities agenda as it affects service delivery and development.  The event takes place in the Mitchell Library Moir/Dyer Suite on Tuesday 17th November 2009. In a wide ranging programme delegates will: ...
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• Why use Wordle?

  
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  Wordle was introduced in a previous Newsfeed post, but some of you may be wondering how you could put this free online service to good use. Well, here are 38 ideas that you might want to consider:
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• Software Developer at UHI wins prize in JISC MOSAIC Developer Competition

  
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  Alistair Young, Senior Software Developer at UHI , has won a prize in JISC MOSAIC Developer Competition. The competition, which attracted international attention, was established to investigate how user data can be used. Balviar Notay from the JISC Environment Team said, “the MOSAIC project is investigating the ...
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• Records & Information Management Impact Calculator

  
  RSC NewsFeed — Authority: 479
  This new downloadable tool form JISC infoNet is part of a common framework being developed for measuring the impact of records management. This tool will allow organisations to considering capture and measure three distinct sets of data: performance information before and after completion of the initiative and the ...
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• Virtual Paramedic Training Honoured by JISC Times Higher Education Award

  
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  A project which trains paramedic students online through real-life scenarios has won JISC’s outstanding ICT initiative award at the Times Higher Awards, owing to its potential implications for other universities. Emily Conradi, project manager at St George’s University London and award winner said: “The online ...
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