This document provides a summary of the RSC Eastern update from September and October 2013. It discusses upcoming events in the region, including forums and a Learning Resources Managers Forum. It also outlines new funding opportunities, recent news items like new video reviews of technology and survey results. New free resources are highlighted, such as maths courses, vocational training materials, and access to image and video collections.

1. RSC Eastern update
Malcolm Bodley & Maryse Fisher Jisc Regional Support Centre

2. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
Learning Resources Managers Forum
ACER, St Ives, Cambs, 22nd November 2013
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
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3. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
Jisc
Jisc is now a registered charity and champion the use of
digital technologies in UK education and research
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4. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
What’s happening in the Region?
»Funding
»Forums
»Events
»News & Resources
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Funding
Further Education and Skills: Development and Resources
Programme 2012 –2013
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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6. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
Future Funding
FE & Skills Innovations Projects 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
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Regional F2F Events & Forums
http://bit.ly/rsce-events
» 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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8. RSC Eastern Update September 2013
National Events F2F & Online
Visit our National UK Site for
National Events:
http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/
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Latest News
Thomas’s Tech Review
In these short videos,
RSC Eastern Technical
Advisor, Thomas
Rochford, examines the
latest user interfaces,
demonstrating the new
Leapmotion and
Sandstrom touchpad
devices.
bit.ly/thomastechreview1

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Latest News
RSCs welcome e-learning case studies
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

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Latest News
RSCs customer satisfaction survey
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

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New Resources
New online maths courses for adult learners
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.
bit.ly/mathscourses

13. RSC Eastern Update October 2013
New Resources
Free resources for hairdressing, childcare, and more
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.
www.education-net.org/
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14. RSC Eastern Update October 2013
New Resources
Case study – moving to mobile devices in the workplace
LAGAT Training & Recruitment have shared their FE &
Skills Programme Final Project Report.
To achieve their aims they moved away from paperbased 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
www.eeles643.co.uk/RSC/
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New Resources
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

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New Resources
130,000 free images, videos and audio resources
Jisc 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

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